CVE-2011-3131
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-12-13 11:00
Modified
2024-09-16 23:45
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-06/msg01106.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-08/msg00450.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/45622Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/51468Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49146
cve@mitre.orghttp://xenbits.xen.org/hg/staging/xen-4.1-testing.hg/rev/84e3706df07aExploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-06/msg01106.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-08/msg00450.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/45622Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/51468Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49146
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/staging/xen-4.1-testing.hg/rev/84e3706df07aExploit
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