CVE-2011-1898 (GCVE-0-2011-1898)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-08-12 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:46
VLAI?
Summary
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."
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