CVE-2021-28702

HIGH

Xen 4.13.0-4.15.1 - Improper Privilege Management in PCI Device Deassignment

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

PCI devices with RMRRs not deassigned correctly Certain PCI devices in a system might be assigned Reserved Memory Regions (specified via Reserved Memory Region Reporting, "RMRR"). These are typically used for platform tasks such as legacy USB emulation. If such a device is passed through to a guest, then on guest shutdown the device is not properly deassigned. The IOMMU configuration for these devices which are not properly deassigned ends up pointing to a freed data structure, including the IO Pagetables. Subsequent DMA or interrupts from the device will have unpredictable behaviour, ranging from IOMMU faults to memory corruption.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-386.txt
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/07/2
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5017
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-23

Scores

CVSS v3 7.6
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 16.8%
Attack Vector PHYSICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (5)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
fedoraproject/fedora 33
fedoraproject/fedora 34
fedoraproject/fedora 35
xen/xen 4.13.0 - 4.15.1
Published Oct 06, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026