CVE-2011-1898

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Citrix
Status
Xen
Vendor
CVE Published:
12 August 2011

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

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011...
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://xen.org/download/index_4.0.2.html
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/Xen-security-advisory-CV...
mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database
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