CVE-2011-1898

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-1898
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-08-12 18:55:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionXen 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."

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.4 from [email protected]

AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Adjacent
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Citrix Xen 4.0.0 All All All
Application Citrix Xen 4.0.1 All All All
Application Citrix Xen 4.1.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2011/Software%20Attacks%20on%20Intel%20VT-d.pdf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.invisiblethingslab.com Exploit
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2011:0942-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2011:0941-1: important: xen: Fixed a sec af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: xen-4.1.1-1.fc15 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
The Invisible Things Lab's blog: Following the White Rabbit: Software Attacks Against Intel VT-d af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com
Xen - Dev - Xen security advisory CVE-2011-1898 - VT-d (PCI passthrough) MSI af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: xen-4.0.2-1.fc14 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
Page not found - Xen Project af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 xen.org Patch
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