Xen 4.x, when using Intel VT-d for a bus mastering capable PCI device, does not properly check the source when accessing a bridge device's interrupt remapping table entries for MSI interrupts, which allows local guest domains to cause a denial of service (interrupt injection) via unspecified vectors.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2013-1952 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Not vulnerable.
This issue did not affect the versions of the kernel-xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as we did not have support for Xen hypervisor.
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
Base Score | 5.2 |
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Base Metrics | AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C |
Access Vector | Adjacent Network |
Access Complexity | Medium |
Authentication | Single |
Confidentiality Impact | None |
Integrity Impact | None |
Availability Impact | Complete |
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Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 | realtime-kernel | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | kernel | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kernel-xen | Not affected |