CVE-2011-1898
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."
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 58% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-264
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- citrix:xen
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://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/05/following-white-rabbit-software-attacks.html