CVE-2011-3131 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00054.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Redhat	Enterprise Linux
Xen	Xen

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
kernel-0:2.6.18-274.7.1.el5	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5	RHSA-2011:1386	2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-2582-1	xen security update
EUVD	EUVD-2011-3099	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-06/msg01106.html
http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-08/msg00450.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/45622
http://secunia.com/advisories/51468
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49146
http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/staging/xen-4.1-testing.hg/rev/84e3706df07a
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3131
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-3131

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2012-12-13T11:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T23:45:36.240Z

Reserved: 2011-08-11T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2011-3131

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-12-13T11:53:33.350

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2011-3131

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2011-08-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-3131 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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