CVE-2011-1898
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 12, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- May 4, 2011
Description
Xen 4.1 before 4.1.1 and 4.0 before 4.0.2, when using PCI passthrough on Intel VT-d chipsets that do not have interrupt remapping, allows guest OS users to gain host OS privileges by "using DMA to generate MSI interrupts by writing to the interrupt injection registers."
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- SUSE-SU-2011:0942vendor-advisory
- http://xen.org/download/index_4.0.2.html
- [xen-dev] 20110512 Xen security advisory CVE-2011-1898 - VT-d (PCI passthrough) MSImailing-list
- FEDORA-2011-8403vendor-advisory
- http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2011/Software%20Attacks%20on%20Intel%20VT-d.pdf
- http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/05/following-white-rabbit-software-attacks.html
- openSUSE-SU-2011:0941vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2011-8421vendor-advisory
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