CVE-2021-28701
mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.003 · 18 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4.4–7.8
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affected products (16)
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references (36)
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- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/08/2cnnvd
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-384.htmlcnnvd
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-384.html。Patchcnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3HEHUIUWSSMCQGQY3GWX4J2SZGYP5W2Z/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CEHZLIR5DFYYQBH55AERWHLO54OFU42C/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L4MI3MQAPGILCLXBGQWPZHGE3ALSO4ZU/cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168076/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-202208-23.htmlcnnvd
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-23cnnvd
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