High severity · published Nov 24, 2021
CVE-2021-28705
issues with partially successful P2M updates on x86 T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which…
7.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
issues with partially successful P2M updates on x86 T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] x86 HVM and PVH guests may be started in populate-on-demand (PoD) mode, to provide a way for them to later easily have more memory assigned. Guests are permitted to control certain P2M aspects of individual pages via hypercalls. These hypercalls may act on ranges of pages specified via page orders (resulting in a power-of-2 number of pages). In some cases the hypervisor carries out the requests by splitting them into smaller chunks. Error handling in certain PoD cases has been insufficient in that in particular partial success of some operations was not properly accounted for. There are two code paths affected - page removal (CVE-2021-28705) and insertion of new pages (CVE-2021-28709). (We provide one patch which combines the fix to both issues.)
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 30% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
11.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
34; 35 · source: NVD
XE
Xen · Xen
3.4.0 through 4.12.4; 4.13.0 through 4.13.4; 4.14.0 through 4.14.3; 4.15.0; 4.15.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28705
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28705
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7ZGWVVRI4XY2XSTBI3XEMWBXPDVX6OT/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PXUI4VMD52CH3T7YXAG3J2JW7ZNN3SXF/
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5017
Patch
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-389.txt
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