High severity · published Oct 6, 2021
CVE-2021-28702
PCI devices with RMRRs not deassigned correctly Certain PCI devices in a system might be assigned Reserved Memory Regions (specified via Reserved Memory Region Reporting, "RMRR")
7.6
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
PCI devices with RMRRs not deassigned correctly Certain PCI devices in a system might be assigned Reserved Memory Regions (specified via Reserved Memory Region Reporting, "RMRR"). These are typically used for platform tasks such as legacy USB emulation. If such a device is passed through to a guest, then on guest shutdown the device is not properly deassigned. The IOMMU configuration for these devices which are not properly deassigned ends up pointing to a freed data structure, including the IO Pagetables. Subsequent DMA or interrupts from the device will have unpredictable behaviour, ranging from IOMMU faults to memory corruption.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Physical
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 38% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
33; 34; 35 · source: NVD
XE
Xen · Xen
4.13.0 through 4.15.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28702
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28702
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/07/2
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2OIHEJ3R3EH5DYI2I5UMD2ULJ2ELA3EX/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FDPRMOBBLS74ONYP3IXZZXSTLKR7GRQB/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TRAWV6PO2KUGVZTESERECOBUBZ6X45I7/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-23
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5017
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