CVE-2021-28701

Another race in XENMAPSPACE_grant_table handling Guests are permitted access to certain Xen-owned pages of memory

published September 8, 2021

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
17.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Another race in XENMAPSPACE_grant_table handling Guests are permitted access to certain Xen-owned pages of memory. The majority of such pages remain allocated / associated with a guest for its entire lifetime. Grant table v2 status pages, however, are de-allocated when a guest switches (back) from v2 to v1. Freeing such pages requires that the hypervisor enforce that no parallel request can result in the addition of a mapping of such a page to a guest. That enforcement was missing, allowing guests to retain access to pages that were freed and perhaps re-used for other purposes. Unfortunately, when XSA-379 was being prepared, this similar issue was not noticed.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00266 · 17.5th percentile
Published
2021-09-08T13:02Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 SEP 13:02Z
    Another race in XENMAPSPACE_grant_table handling Guests are permitted access to certain Xen-owned pages of memory
    cvelistv5