CVE-2011-3131 in Xen

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 08/11/2011
• Disclosure: 12/13/2012
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-63187
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-399 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.5
• EPSS: 0.00054
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-3131
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3131
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2011-3131/