CVE-2021-28693

Summary

CVECVE-2021-28693
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-06-30 11:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-09-21 16:14:00 UTC
Descriptionxen/arm: Boot modules are not scrubbed The bootloader will load boot modules (e.g. kernel, initramfs...) in a temporary area before they are copied by Xen to each domain memory. To ensure sensitive data is not leaked from the modules, Xen must "scrub" them before handing the page over to the allocator. Unfortunately, it was discovered that modules will not be scrubbed on Arm.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Xen Xen All All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.15.0 rc1 All All
Operating System Xen Xen All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-372.txt MISC xenbits.xenproject.org
Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202107-30) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Array

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180484 Debian Security Update for xen (CVE-2021-28693)
  • 281644 Fedora Security Update for xen (FEDORA-2021-993693c914)
  • 281645 Fedora Security Update for xen (FEDORA-2021-41d4347447)
  • 500800 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 501518 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 501796 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 504543 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 710038 Gentoo Linux Xen Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202107-30)
  • 751074 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xen (SUSE-SU-2021:2925-1)
  • 751083 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xen (SUSE-SU-2021:2924-1)
  • 751100 OpenSUSE Security Update for xen (openSUSE-SU-2021:2923-1)
  • 751111 OpenSUSE Security Update for xen (openSUSE-SU-2021:1236-1)
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