CVE-2021-28706

guests may exceed their designated memory limit When a guest is permitted to have close to 16TiB of memory, it may be able to issue hypercalls to increase its memory allocation beyond the administrator established limit. This is a result of a calculation done with 32-bit precision, which may overflow. It would then only be the overflowed (and hence small) number which gets compared against the established upper bound.

CVSS v3 8.6 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 7.8 HIGH

8.6^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 4.0

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope CHANGED

7.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 6.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7ZGWVVRI4XY2XSTBI3XEMWBXPDVX6OT/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PXUI4VMD52CH3T7YXAG3J2JW7ZNN3SXF/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5017	Third Party Advisory
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-385.txt	Mitigation Patch Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:::::::*

Configuration 3 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2021-11-24 01:15

Updated : 2024-02-04 08:15

NVD link : CVE-2021-28706

Mitre link : CVE-2021-28706

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-28706

JSON object : View

Products Affected

xen

xen

fedoraproject

fedora

debian

debian_linux

CWE

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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