CVE-2021-26933XEN vulnerability

4 documents4 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 76.33%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
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

debiandebian/xen< xen 4.14.1+11-gb0b734a8b3-1 (bookworm)
Debianxen/xen< 4.14.1+11-gb0b734a8b3-1+3
NVDxen/xen4.9.04.14.1

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, Fedora 32, 33

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-3c29-qfhr-mp78: An issue was discovered in Xen 42022-05-24
OSV
CVE-2021-26933: An issue was discovered in Xen 42021-02-17

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2021-26933: xen - An issue was discovered in Xen 4.9 through 4.14.x. On Arm, a guest is allowed to...2021