CVE-2011-3131
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.6EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (38th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-3099)
- Published
- December 13, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-3099 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 16, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- xen / xen
References
- http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-06/msg01106.html
- http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-08/msg00450.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45622(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51468(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2582
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49146
- http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/staging/xen-4.1-testing.hg/rev/84e3706df07a(Exploit)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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