CVE-2021-28702
HIGHXen 4.13.0-4.15.1 - Improper Privilege Management in PCI Device Deassignment
Title source: llmDescription
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
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TRAWV6PO2KUGVZTESERECOBUBZ6X45I7/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FDPRMOBBLS74ONYP3IXZZXSTLKR7GRQB/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2OIHEJ3R3EH5DYI2I5UMD2ULJ2ELA3EX/
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