# CVE-2007-5907: Xen 3.1.1 does not prevent modification of the CR4 TSC from applications, which allows pv guests to cause a denial of service (crash).

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2007-11-09 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Xen 3.1.1 does not prevent modification of the CR4 TSC from applications, which allows pv guests to cause a denial of service (crash).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- http://secunia.com/advisories/32485
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10380
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28412
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0957.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28405
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27219
- http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-10/msg00932.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28636
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html

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