CVE-2007-5906

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-11-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Xen 3.1.1 allows virtual guest system users to cause a denial of service (hypervisor crash) by using a debug register (DR7) to set certain breakpoints.

Affected products

Xensource Inc Xen: 3.1.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-10/msg01048.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28405
http://secunia.com/advisories/28412
http://secunia.com/advisories/28636
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27219
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-10/msg01048.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28405
http://secunia.com/advisories/28412
http://secunia.com/advisories/28636

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