CVE-2011-1898
N/A
Published: August 12, 2011 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:30 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXen
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.9%
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."
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062112.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062139.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00018.html
- http://xen.org/download/index_4.0.2.html
References (8)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062112.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062139.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00017.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00018.htmlx_refsource_MISCExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2011/Software%20Attacks%20on%20Intel%20VT-d.pdfMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/Xen-security-advisory-CVE-2011-1898-VT-d-PCI-passthrough-MSI-td4390298.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264
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