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CVE-2021-28713

Public on 2022-01-05
Modified on 2022-02-04
Description

A denial of service flaw for virtual machine guests in the Linux kernel's Xen hypervisor subsystem was found in the way users call some interrupts with high frequency from one of the guests.
A local user could use this flaw to starve the resources resulting in a denial of service.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.2
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2023-02-17 00:02 ALAS-2023-1688
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2022-02-04 23:24 ALAS-2022-1563
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2022-02-04 23:25 ALAS2-2022-1749
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.10 Extra kernel 2022-01-26 00:57 ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-009
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra kernel 2022-01-26 00:54 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-021

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H