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Tracker / CVE-2021-26932

CVE-2021-26932

Medium 5.5

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.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
fedoraproject fedora
linux linux_kernel · 3.2 → 5.10.16
netapp cloud_backup
netapp hci_compute_node
netapp hci_h410c_firmware
netapp solidfire\,_enterprise_sds_\&_hci_storage_node
netapp solidfire_\&_hci_management_node

Analysis

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