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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-28701

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-28701 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.800000190734863 HIGH

Another race in XENMAPSPACE_grant_table handling Guests are permitted access to certain Xen-owned pages of memory. The majority of such pages remain allocated / associated with a guest for its entire lifetime. Grant table v2 status pages, however, are de-allocated when a guest switches (back) from v2 to v1. Freeing such pages requires that the hypervisor enforce that no parallel request can result in the addition of a mapping of such a page to a guest. That enforcement was missing, allowing guests to retain access to pages that were freed and perhaps re-used for other purposes. Unfortunately, when XSA-379 was being prepared, this similar issue was not noticed.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
7.800000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:14xen0, 0, 0
Debian:12xen0, 0, 0
Debian:13xen0, 0, 0
Debian:11xen0, 4.14.2+25, 0

Timeline

  • Sep 8, 2021 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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