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    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."

    Published:Apr 13, 2011
    Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
    EPS:Aug 12, 2011
    EPSS Score:0.00617
    CVSS Score:7.4

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Citrix
    Product
    Xen
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Rhel Eus

    Exploits

    http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2011/Software%20Attacks%20on%20Intel%20VT-d.pdfhttp://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2011/Software%20Attacks%20on%20Intel%20VT-d.pdf

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-284 Improper Access Control

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2011-1583 (CVSS 6.9) — Multiple integer overflows in tools/libxc/xc_dom_bzimageloader.c in Xen 3.2, 3.3, 4.0, and 4.1 allow local use…
    CVE-2011-3262 (CVSS 2.1) — tools/libxc/xc_dom_bzimageloader.c in Xen 3.2, 3.3, 4.0, and 4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of servi…
    CVE-2010-4255 (CVSS 6.1) — The fixup_page_fault function in arch/x86/traps.c in Xen 4.0.1 and earlier on 64-bit platforms, when paravirtu…
    CVE-2010-3699 (CVSS 2.7) — The backend driver in Xen 3.x allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service via a kernel thread leak, whi…
    CVE-2010-4238 (CVSS 5.5) — The vbd_create function in Xen 3.1.2, when the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 is use…
    CVE-2008-5716 (CVSS 7.2) — xend in Xen 3.3.0 does not properly restrict a guest VM's write access within the /local/domain xenstore direc…
    CVE-2008-4405 (CVSS 7.2) — xend in Xen 3.0.3 does not properly limit the contents of the /local/domain xenstore directory tree, and does …
    CVE-2010-4247 (CVSS 5.5) — The do_block_io_op function in (1) drivers/xen/blkback/blkback.c and (2) drivers/xen/blktap/blktap.c in Xen be…

    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
    http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2011/Software%20Attacks%20on%20Intel%20VT-d.pdf
    http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/Xen-security-advisory-CVE-2011-1898-VT-d-PCI-passthrough-MSI-td4390298.html
    http://xen.org/download/index_4.0.2.html
    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
    http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2011/Software%20Attacks%20on%20Intel%20VT-d.pdf
    http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/Xen-security-advisory-CVE-2011-1898-VT-d-PCI-passthrough-MSI-td4390298.html
    http://xen.org/download/index_4.0.2.html

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High