CVE-2011-1898 | BDVDB-2026-47006 Detail
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."
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00018.html
- 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://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062139.html
- http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2011/Software%20Attacks%20on%20Intel%20VT-d.pdf
- http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/05/following-white-rabbit-software-attacks.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00017.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062112.html
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.