An issue was discovered in Xen 4.12.3 through 4.12.4 and 4.13.1 through 4.14.x. An x86 HVM guest with PCI pass through devices can force the allocation of all IDT vectors on the system by rebooting itself with MSI or MSI-X capabilities enabled and entries setup. Such reboots will leak any vectors used by the MSI(-X) entries that the guest might had enabled, and hence will lead to vector exhaustion on the system, not allowing further PCI pass through devices to work properly. HVM guests with PCI pass through devices can mount a Denial of Service (DoS) attack affecting the pass through of PCI devices to other guests or the hardware domain. In the latter case, this would affect the entire host.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2021-01-26T19:58:23
Updated: 2024-08-03T16:53:16.509Z
Reserved: 2021-01-26T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-3308
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2021-01-26T20:15:12.303
Modified: 2024-11-21T06:21:15.050
Link: CVE-2021-3308
Redhat
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