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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3308

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3308 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12xen0, 0, 0
Debian:11xen0, 0, 0
Debian:13xen0, 0, 0
Debian:14xen0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Jan 26, 2021 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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