CVE-2021-26930

Public on 2021-02-17
Modified on 2021-03-19
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 3.11 through 5.10.16, as used by Xen. To service requests to the PV backend, the driver maps grant references provided by the frontend. In this process, errors may be encountered. In one case, an error encountered earlier might be discarded by later processing, resulting in the caller assuming successful mapping, and hence subsequent operations trying to access space that wasn't mapped. In another case, internal state would be insufficiently updated, preventing safe recovery from the error. This affects drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c.
Severity
Important severity
Important
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.8
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2021-03-18 ALAS-2021-1487 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2021-03-18 ALAS2-2021-1616 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra kernel 2022-01-11 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-001 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H