CVE-2021-28701

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28701
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-28701.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-28701
Downstream
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Published
2021-09-08T14:15:08Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:27Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Another race in XENMAPSPACEgranttable 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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Affected packages