CVE-2021-27379

Summary

CVECVE-2021-27379
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-02-18 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-05-27 17:09:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x, allowing x86 Intel HVM guest OS users to achieve unintended read/write DMA access, and possibly cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain privileges. This occurs because a backport missed a flush, and thus IOMMU updates were not always correct. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-15565.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen All All All All
Operating System Xen Xen All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
XSA-366 - Xen Security Advisories MISC xenbits.xen.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4888-1 xen DEBIAN www.debian.org
XSA-366 - Xen Security Advisories CONFIRM xenbits.xen.org
oss-security - Xen Security Advisory 366 v2 (CVE-2021-27379) - missed flush in XSA-321 backport MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 174927 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xen (SUSE-SU-2021:1250-1)
  • 174928 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xen (SUSE-SU-2021:1252-1)
  • 174929 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xen (SUSE-SU-2021:1251-1)
  • 178530 Debian Security Update for xen (DSA 4888-1)
  • 180504 Debian Security Update for xen (CVE-2021-27379)
  • 377778 Citrix XenServer Security Updates (CTX316324)
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