CVE-2021-26933
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CVE-2021-26933 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 5.5/10 on the CVSS scale. An issue was discovered in Xen 4.9 through 4.14.x. On Arm, a guest is allowed to control whether memory accesses are bypassing the cache. EPSS estimates a 0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen 4.9 through 4.14.x. On Arm, a guest is allowed to control whether memory accesses are bypassing the cache. This means that Xen needs to ensure that all writes (such as the ones during scrubbing) have reached the memory before handing over the page to a guest. Unfortunately, the operation to clean the cache is happening before checking if the page was scrubbed. Therefore there is no guarantee when all the writes will reach the memory.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Xen | Xen | >= 4.9.0, <= 4.14.1 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | 32 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | 33 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | 10.0 |
References
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-364.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4888Third Party Advisory
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-364.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4888Third Party Advisory
Timeline
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- Status
- Modified
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