CVE-2020-27675 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1 as used with Xen through 4.14.x. drivers/xen/events/events_base.c allows event-channel removal during the event-handling loop (a race condition). This can cause a use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference as demonstrated by a dom0 crash via events for an in-reconfiguration paravirtualized device aka CID-073d0552ead5.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=073d0552ead5bfc7a3a9c01de590e924f11b5dd2 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/073d0552ead5bfc7a3a9c01de590e924f11b5dd2 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3ZG6TZLD23QO3PV2AN2HB625ZX47ALTT/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6USZ4APZSBQDHGJLJMHW5JBN4QZV6SKZ/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GNF2R7FUT4IOJ2RIRGQ7X5R4F4FVVLSR/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06 https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-331.html

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

4.7