cve-2011-1898
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-08-12 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 22:46
Severity ?
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."
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062112.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062139.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00017.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00018.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/05/following-white-rabbit-software-attacks.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2011/Software%20Attacks%20on%20Intel%20VT-d.pdfExploit
cve@mitre.orghttp://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/Xen-security-advisory-CVE-2011-1898-VT-d-PCI-passthrough-MSI-td4390298.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://xen.org/download/index_4.0.2.htmlPatch
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