CVE-2021-28701 Vulnerability Details

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CVE-2021-28701 Metadata Quick Info

CVE Published: 08/09/2021 | CVE Updated: 03/08/2024 | CVE Year: 2021
Source: XEN | Vendor: Xen | Product: xen
Status : PUBLISHED

CVE-2021-28701 Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS Version: 3.1 | Base Score: n/a
Vector: n/a

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Source: Xen

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Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database).