Security Advisory

CVE-2011-1898

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-08-12 18:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 22:46:00
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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."