CVE-2021-26931 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 2.6.39 through 5.10.16 as used in Xen. Block net and SCSI backends consider certain errors a plain bug deliberately causing a kernel crash. For errors potentially being at least under the influence of guests (such as out of memory conditions) it isn’t correct to assume a plain bug. Memory allocations potentially causing such crashes occur only when Linux is running in PV mode though. This affects drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c and drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-362.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2XQR52ICKRK3GC4HDWLMWF2U55YGAR63/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GWQWPWYZRXVFJI5M3VCM72X27IB7CKOB/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00010.html https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210326-0001/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00035.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