CVE-2021-26933 — XEN vulnerability
4 documents4 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 76.33%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedFeb 17
Latest updateMay 24
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen 4.9 through 4.14.x. On Arm, a guest is allowed to control whether memory accesses are bypassing the cache. This means that Xen needs to ensure that all writes (such as the ones during scrubbing) have reached the memory before handing over the page to a guest. Unfortunately, the operation to clean the cache is happening before checking if the page was scrubbed. Therefore there is no guarantee when all the writes will reach the memory.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages3 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, Fedora 32, 33