CVE-2020-27673

Summary

CVECVE-2020-27673
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-10-22 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-22 15:16:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. Guest OS users can cause a denial of service (host OS hang) via a high rate of events to dom0, aka CID-e99502f76271.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.10 rc1 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.2 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202011-06) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1844-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1783-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2494-1] linux security update MLIST lists.debian.org
oss-security - Xen Security Advisory 332 v4 (CVE-2020-27673) - Rogue guests can cause DoS of Dom0 via high frequency events MLIST www.openwall.com
XSA-332 - Xen Security Advisories MISC xenbits.xen.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
xen/events: defer eoi in case of excessive number of events · torvalds/linux@e99502f · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2483-1] linux-4.19 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 353100 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAC2012-2021-024
  • 353101 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kmod-mlx5 : ALAC2012-2021-025
  • 353102 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kmod-sfc : ALAC2012-2021-026
  • 353133 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-018
  • 378881 Citrix XenServer Security Updates (CTX284874)
  • 6140263 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-gw9p-62vv-8pr9)
  • 750004 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2021:1573-1)
  • 750006 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2021:1596-1)
  • 750014 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2021:1623-1)
  • 750015 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2021:1624-1)
  • 750650 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2021:1975-1)
  • 750652 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2021:1977-1)
  • 750762 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:1977-1)
  • 750766 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:1975-1)
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