Description (CNA)
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."
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
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
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- 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