CVE-2012-3494

Name	CVE-2012-3494
Description	The set_debugreg hypercall in include/asm-x86/debugreg.h in Xen 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2, and Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 and earlier, when running on x86-64 systems, allows local OS guest users to cause a denial of service (host crash) by writing to the reserved bits of the DR7 debug control register.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-2544-1
Debian Bugs	686764

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
xen (PTS)	buster, buster (security)	4.11.4+107-gef32c7afa2-1	fixed
	bullseye	4.14.5+86-g1c354767d5-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	4.17.0+46-gaaf74a532c-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
xen	source	squeeze	4.0.1-5.4		DSA-2544-1
xen	source	(unstable)	4.1.3-2			686764