CVE-2021-28688

MEDIUM

XSA-365 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The fix for XSA-365 includes initialization of pointers such that subsequent cleanup code wouldn't use uninitialized or stale values. This initialization went too far and may under certain conditions also overwrite pointers which are in need of cleaning up. The lack of cleanup would result in leaking persistent grants. The leak in turn would prevent fully cleaning up after a respective guest has died, leaving around zombie domains. All Linux versions having the fix for XSA-365 applied are vulnerable. XSA-365 was classified to affect versions back to at least 3.11.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 32.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-665
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
linux/linux_kernel 3.11 - 5.10.18
Published Apr 06, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026