CVE-2021-28706 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in XEN
Severity
8.6HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 63.78%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 24
Latest updateMay 24
Description
guests may exceed their designated memory limit When a guest is permitted to have close to 16TiB of memory, it may be able to issue hypercalls to increase its memory allocation beyond the administrator established limit. This is a result of a calculation done with 32-bit precision, which may overflow. It would then only be the overflowed (and hence small) number which gets compared against the established upper bound.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 4.0
Affected Packages4 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0, Fedora 34, 35
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-x89c-76jf-xx4h: guests may exceed their designated memory limit When a guest is permitted to have close to 16TiB of memory, it may be able to issue hypercalls to incr↗2022-05-24
OSV▶
CVE-2021-28706: guests may exceed their designated memory limit When a guest is permitted to have close to 16TiB of memory, it may be able to issue hypercalls to incr↗2021-11-24
📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2021-28706: xen - guests may exceed their designated memory limit When a guest is permitted to hav...↗2021