CVE-2021-28038

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.3, as used with Xen PV. A certain part of the netback driver lacks necessary treatment of errors such as failed memory allocations (as a result of changes to the handling of grant mapping errors). A host OS denial of service may occur during misbehavior of a networking frontend driver. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2021-26931.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210409-0001/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00035.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00010.html

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2991397d23ec597405b116d96de3813420bdcbc3

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-367.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/05/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-03-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium