CVE-2021-28709
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-11-24 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 21:47
Severity ?
Summary
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.)
References
security@xen.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7ZGWVVRI4XY2XSTBI3XEMWBXPDVX6OT/
security@xen.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PXUI4VMD52CH3T7YXAG3J2JW7ZNN3SXF/
security@xen.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
security@xen.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5017Third Party Advisory
security@xen.orghttps://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-389.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7ZGWVVRI4XY2XSTBI3XEMWBXPDVX6OT/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PXUI4VMD52CH3T7YXAG3J2JW7ZNN3SXF/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5017Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-389.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Xen xen Version: 4.12.x
Xen xen Version: 4.15.x
Xen xen Version: xen-unstable
Xen xen Version: 4.13.x
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