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xen: denial of service

Package(s):xen CVE #(s):CVE-2011-3131
Created:August 31, 2011 Updated:September 1, 2011
Description: A xen virtual machine given control of a PCI device can cause it to issue invalid DMA requests, potentially overwhelming the host with interrupts from the IOMMU. See this advisory for details.
Alerts:
Scientific Linux SL-kern-20111020 2011-10-20
CentOS CESA-2011:1386 2011-10-21
Red Hat RHSA-2011:1386-01 2011-10-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2011:0983-1 2011-09-01
Fedora FEDORA-2011-10942 2011-08-17
Oracle ELSA-2012-0150 2012-03-07
Debian DSA-2582-1 2012-12-07
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