Description
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.
Published: 2012-12-13
Score: 4.6 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2582-1 xen security update
EUVD 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.
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

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

Reserved: 2011-08-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-3131

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2011-3131

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2011-3131 - Bugzilla

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