An issue was discovered in Xen 4.12.3 through 4.12.4 and 4.13.1 through 4.14.x. An x86 HVM guest with PCI pass through devices can force the allocation of all IDT vectors on the system by rebooting itself with MSI or MSI-X capabilities enabled and entries setup. Such reboots will leak any vectors used by the MSI(-X) entries that the guest might had enabled, and hence will lead to vector exhaustion on the system, not allowing further PCI pass through devices to work properly. HVM guests with PCI pass through devices can mount a Denial of Service (DoS) attack affecting the pass through of PCI devices to other guests or the hardware domain. In the latter case, this would affect the entire host.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.5
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade xen | Mar 26, 2024 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade xen | Jul 30, 2024 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade app-emulation/xen. | Jul 13, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade xen-libsUpgrade xen-toolsUpgrade xen-tools-xendomains-wait-diskUpgrade xen-develUpgrade xen-doc-htmlUpgrade xen-tools-domUUpgrade xen-libs-32bitUpgrade xen | Apr 7, 2021 | Jan 26, 2021 |
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