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CVE-2011-1898 Details

Description

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."

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062112.html	CVE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062139.html	CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00017.html	CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00018.html	CVE
http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/05/following-white-rabbit-software-attacks.html	CVE
http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2011/Software%20Attacks%20on%20Intel%20VT-d.pdf	CVE	Exploit
http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/Xen-security-advisory-CVE-2011-1898-VT-d-PCI-passthrough-MSI-td4390298.html	CVE
http://xen.org/download/index_4.0.2.html	CVE	Patch
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062112.html	[email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062139.html	[email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00017.html	[email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00018.html	[email protected]
http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/05/following-white-rabbit-software-attacks.html	[email protected]
http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2011/Software%20Attacks%20on%20Intel%20VT-d.pdf	[email protected]	Exploit
http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/Xen-security-advisory-CVE-2011-1898-VT-d-PCI-passthrough-MSI-td4390298.html	[email protected]
http://xen.org/download/index_4.0.2.html	[email protected]	Patch

see all 16 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-264	Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
citrix xen	4.0.0 4.0.1 4.1.0
CPE cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xen:4.0.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xen:4.0.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:citrix:xen:4.1.0:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 29, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Aug 15, 2011	Initial Analysis	[email protected]