Medium severity · published Jan 26, 2021
CVE-2021-3308
An issue was discovered in Xen 4.12.3 through 4.12.4 and 4.13.1 through 4.14.x
5.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen 4.12.3 through 4.12.4 and 4.13.1 through 4.14.x. An x86 HVM guest with PCI pass through devices can force the allocation of all IDT vectors on the system by rebooting itself with MSI or MSI-X capabilities enabled and entries setup. Such reboots will leak any vectors used by the MSI(-X) entries that the guest might had enabled, and hence will lead to vector exhaustion on the system, not allowing further PCI pass through devices to work properly. HVM guests with PCI pass through devices can mount a Denial of Service (DoS) attack affecting the pass through of PCI devices to other guests or the hardware domain. In the latter case, this would affect the entire host.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 36% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
32 · source: NVD
XE
Xen · Xen
4.13.1 through 4.14.1; 4.12.3; 4.12.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3308
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3308
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/26/4
Patch
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-360.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S5C42TMQYB6SDVT2MPFEWY65A6RSUVBN/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-30
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