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CVE Reference: CVE-2011-1898
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2011-1898

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."

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SUSE
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00018.html
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00017.html

MLIST
  http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/Xen-security-advisory-CVE-2011-1898-VT-d-PCI-passthrough-MSI-td4390298.html

MISC
  http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2011/Software%20Attacks%20on%20Intel%20VT-d.pdf
  http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/05/following-white-rabbit-software-attacks.html

FEDORA
  http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062112.html
  http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062139.html

CONFIRM
  http://xen.org/download/index_4.0.2.html


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