Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 3.11 through 5.10.16, as used by Xen. To service requests to the PV backend, the driver maps grant references provided by the frontend. In this process, errors may be encountered. In one case, an error encountered earlier might be discarded by later processing, resulting in the caller assuming successful mapping, and hence subsequent operations trying to access space that wasn't mapped. In another case, internal state would be insufficiently updated, preventing safe recovery from the error. This affects drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2XQR52ICKRK3GC4HDWLMWF2U55YGAR63/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GWQWPWYZRXVFJI5M3VCM72X27IB7CKOB/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00010.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00035.html
Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-365.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210326-0001/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0035
EPSS Percentile
27.0%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux
9.0
fedoraproject/fedora
32
fedoraproject/fedora
33
linux/linux_kernel
3.11 - 5.10.16
Published
Feb 17, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026