Vulnerability in Xen

CVE-2011-3131

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.

EPSS: 0.004 (36.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Xen
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References