CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-26932
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-02-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
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 configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.2 <= 5.10.16)
• fedoraproject fedora 32
• fedoraproject fedora 33
• debian debian linux 9.0
• netapp cloud backup
• netapp solidfire\, enterprise sds \& hci storage node
• netapp solidfire \& hci management node
• netapp hci compute node
• netapp hci h410c firmware
References
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-361.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ebee0eab08594b2bd5db716288a4f1ae5936e9bc git.kernel.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00035.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2XQR52ICKRK3GC4HDWLMWF2U55YGAR63/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GWQWPWYZRXVFJI5M3VCM72X27IB7CKOB/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210326-0001/ Third Party Advisory
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-361.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ebee0eab08594b2bd5db716288a4f1ae5936e9bc git.kernel.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00035.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2XQR52ICKRK3GC4HDWLMWF2U55YGAR63/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GWQWPWYZRXVFJI5M3VCM72X27IB7CKOB/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210326-0001/ Third Party Advisory