CVE-2011-1898

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."

References

http://xen.org/download/index_4.0.2.html

http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/Xen-security-advisory-CVE-2011-1898-VT-d-PCI-passthrough-MSI-td4390298.html

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/05/following-white-rabbit-software-attacks.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00018.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00017.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062139.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062112.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3