CVE-2020-27673 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1 as used with Xen through 4.14.x. Guest OS users can cause a denial of service (host OS hang) via a high rate of events to dom0 aka CID-e99502f76271.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00075.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00025.html https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e99502f76271d6bc4e374fe368c50c67a1fd3070 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e99502f76271d6bc4e374fe368c50c67a1fd3070 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06 https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-332.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5