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."
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2011-08-12T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T22:46:00.183Z

Reserved: 2011-05-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2011-1898

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-08-12T18:55:00.870

Modified: 2011-10-26T02:58:58.513

Link: CVE-2011-1898

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2011-04-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-1898 - Bugzilla