CVE-2021-28698Infinite Loop in XEN

CWE-835Infinite Loop4 documents4 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 82.62%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedAug 27
Latest updateMay 24

Description

long running loops in grant table handling In order to properly monitor resource use, Xen maintains information on the grant mappings a domain may create to map grants offered by other domains. In the process of carrying out certain actions, Xen would iterate over all such entries, including ones which aren't in use anymore and some which may have been created but never used. If the number of entries for a given domain is large enough, this iterating of the entire table may tie up a CPU for too

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

CVEListV5xen/xen4.15.xunspecified+4
debiandebian/xen< xen 4.14.3-1 (bookworm)
Debianxen/xen< 4.14.3-1~deb11u1+3
NVDxen/xen

Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0, Fedora 33, 34, 35

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-2g34-x978-mw32: long running loops in grant table handling In order to properly monitor resource use, Xen maintains information on the grant mappings a domain may cre2022-05-24
OSV
CVE-2021-28698: long running loops in grant table handling In order to properly monitor resource use, Xen maintains information on the grant mappings a domain may cre2021-08-27

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2021-28698: xen - long running loops in grant table handling In order to properly monitor resource...2021