CVE-2011-3131

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-3131
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-12-13 11:53:33 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionXen 4.1.1 and earlier allows local guest OS kernels with control of a PCI[E] device to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and host hang) via many crafted DMA requests that are denied by the IOMMU, which triggers a livelock.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.6 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Xen Xen All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
staging/xen-4.1-testing.hg: 84e3706df07a af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 xenbits.xen.org Exploit
Xen DMA Requests IOMMU Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Security Advisory SA51468 - Debian update for xen - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
[Xen-devel] Xen Advisory 5 (CVE-2011-3131) IOMMU fault livelock - Xen Source af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 old-list-archives.xen.org
Security Advisory SA45622 - Xen DMA Requests IOMMU Denial of Service Weakness - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
[Xen-devel] IOMMU faults - Xen Source af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 old-list-archives.xen.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2582-1 xen af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
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