Vulnerability record · CVE-2012-3494 · published 23 November 2012

CVE-2012-3494: Citrix xenserver permissions and access controls vulnerability

Citrix · Xenserver

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.

2.1 CVSS 2.0 Low EPSS 0.44% · top 64.3% CWE-264 · Permissions and access controls

2.1CVSS 2.0 base score

0.44%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days

NoNot in CISA KEV

2Affected product versions listed by NVD

50References

16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

Xenserver Citrix

Xen Xen

References

Link	Tags
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00012.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00000.html
http://osvdb.org/85197
http://secunia.com/advisories/50472	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50530	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/51413
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX134708	PatchVendor Advisory
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Security_Announcements#XSA-12_hypercall_set_debugreg_vulnerability
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2544
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55400
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027479
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851139
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78265
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-03
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00012.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00017.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00018.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-09/msg00000.html
http://osvdb.org/85197
http://secunia.com/advisories/50472	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50530	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/51413
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2012-3494), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-10-05). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.