CVE-2011-3131
N/A
Published: December 13, 2012 at 11:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:32 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXen
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
Xen 4.1.1 and earlier allows local guest OS kernels with control of a PCI[E] device to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and host hang) via many crafted DMA requests that are denied by the IOMMU, which triggers a livelock.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (7)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-06/msg01106.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-08/msg00450.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/45622Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/51468Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582x_refsource_CONFIRMExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/staging/xen-4.1-testing.hg/rev/84e3706df07aQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-399
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