CVE-2020-11743
lowpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.005 · 44 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-26
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service because of a bad error path in GNTTABOP_map_grant. Grant table operations are expected to return 0 for success, and a negative number for errors. Some misplaced brackets cause one error path to return 1 instead of a negative value. The grant table code in Linux treats this condition as success, and proceeds with incorrectly initialised state. A buggy or malicious guest can construct its grant table in such a way that, when a backend domain tries to map a grant, it hits the incorrect error path. This will crash a Linux based dom0 or backend domain.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 2.1–5.5
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affected products (12)
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references (37)
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- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00006.htmlcnnvd
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/14/3cnnvd
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-316.htmlcnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-11743cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5M2XRNCHOGGTJQBZQJ7DCV6ZNAKN3LE2/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NVTP4OYHCTRU3ONFJOFJQVNDFB25KLLG/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YMAW7D2MP6RE4BFI5BZWOBBWGY3VSOFN/cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11743cnnvd
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