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CVE-2013-0153 json

The AMD IOMMU support in Xen 4.2.x, 4.1.x, 3.3, and other versions, when using AMD-Vi for PCI passthrough, uses the same interrupt remappin…

published 13y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-0196

cvss
4.7
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 35%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The AMD IOMMU support in Xen 4.2.x, 4.1.x, 3.3, and other versions, when using AMD-Vi for PCI passthrough, uses the same interrupt remapping table for the host and all guests, which allows guests to cause a denial of service by injecting an interrupt into other guests.

Patch / fix

  • xen Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.1.4-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0153

  • kernel RHEL 5 2.6.18-348.6.1.el5
  • kernel-PAE RHEL 5 2.6.18-348.6.1.el5
  • kernel-xen RHEL 5 2.6.18-348.6.1.el5
  • kernel-kdump RHEL 5 2.6.18-348.6.1.el5
  • kernel-debuginfo-common RHEL 5 2.6.18-348.6.1.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:0847

  • xen openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.7.0_12-1.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-0153 updated cvss 4.3

kernel: xen: interrupt remap entries shared and old ones not cleared on AMD IOMMUs

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) kernel 2.6.18-348.6.1.el5, kernel-PAE 2.6.18-348.6.1.el5, kernel-xen 2.6.18-348.6.1.el5, kernel-kdump 2.6.18-348.6.1.el5, kernel-debuginfo-common 2.6.18-348.6.1.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:0847
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.7 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

References

Sources

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