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hw: virt: Intel VT-d Interrupt Remapping engines can be evaded by native NMI interrupts

Published Aug 28, 2013

Description

The Intel VT-d Interrupt Remapping engine in Xen 3.3.x through 4.3.x allows local guests to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a malformed Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI) from a PCI device that is bus mastering capable that triggers a System Error Reporting (SERR) Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI).

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Remediation

Red Hat statement

This is hardware issue related to Intel VT-d, affecting all hypervisors (such as Xen and KVM) using Intel VT-d for guest PCI passthrough.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Aug 28, 2013
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved May 7, 2013
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Aug 20, 2013