CVE-2021-26932

Public on 2021-02-17
Modified on 2021-03-19
Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 3.2 through 5.10.16, as used by Xen. Grant mapping operations often occur in batch hypercalls, where a number of operations are done in a single hypercall, the success or failure of each one is reported to the backend driver, and the backend driver then loops over the results, performing follow-up actions based on the success or failure of each operation. Unfortunately, when running in PV mode, the Linux backend drivers mishandle this: Some errors are ignored, effectively implying their success from the success of related batch elements. In other cases, errors resulting from one batch element lead to further batch elements not being inspected, and hence successful ones to not be possible to properly unmap upon error recovery. Only systems with Linux backends running in PV mode are vulnerable. Linux backends run in HVM / PVH modes are not vulnerable. This affects arch/*/xen/p2m.c and drivers/xen/gntdev.c.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2021-03-18 17:29 ALAS-2021-1487
Amazon Linux 2 kernel 2021-03-18 01:13 ALAS2-2021-1616
Amazon Linux 2 kernel 2022-01-11 19:20 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-001

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P