CVE-2021-3308

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3308
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-01-26 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:37:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.12.3 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.12.4 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.12.3 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen 4.12.4 All All All
Operating System Xen Xen All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: xen-4.13.2-6.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
XSA-360 - Xen Security Advisories MISC xenbits.xen.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
oss-security - Xen Security Advisory 360 v2 (CVE-2021-3308) - IRQ vector leak on x86 MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: xen-4.13.2-6.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.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

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 174871 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xen (SUSE-SU-2021:1028-1)
  • 174875 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xen (SUSE-SU-2021:1023-1)
  • 174972 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xen (SUSE-SU-2021:1460-1)
  • 180518 Debian Security Update for xen (CVE-2021-3308)
  • 500797 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 501516 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 501793 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 504540 Alpine Linux Security Update for xen
  • 710038 Gentoo Linux Xen Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202107-30)
  • 751087 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xen (SUSE-SU-2021:2955-1)
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