CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-3131
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-12-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
Xen 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.
Affected configurations
• xen xen (<= 4.1.1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-06/msg01106.html old-list-archives.xen.org
- http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-08/msg00450.html old-list-archives.xen.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45622 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51468 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49146 www.securityfocus.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/staging/xen-4.1-testing.hg/rev/84e3706df07a Exploit
- http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-06/msg01106.html old-list-archives.xen.org
- http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-08/msg00450.html old-list-archives.xen.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45622 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51468 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49146 www.securityfocus.com
- http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/staging/xen-4.1-testing.hg/rev/84e3706df07a Exploit