CVE-2021-28706
Published: 24 November 2021
guests may exceed their designated memory limit When a guest is permitted to have close to 16TiB of memory, it may be able to issue hypercalls to increase its memory allocation beyond the administrator established limit. This is a result of a calculation done with 32-bit precision, which may overflow. It would then only be the overflowed (and hence small) number which gets compared against the established upper bound.
Notes
Author | Note |
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mdeslaur |
hypervisor packages are in universe. For issues in the hypervisor, add appropriate tags to each section, ex: Tags_xen: universe-binary |
Priority
Status
Package | Release | Status |
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xen
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
bionic |
Needs triage
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focal |
Needs triage
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hirsute |
Ignored
(end of life)
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impish |
Ignored
(end of life)
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jammy |
Needs triage
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kinetic |
Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
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lunar |
Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
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mantic |
Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
|
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noble |
Needs triage
|
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trusty |
Does not exist
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upstream |
Needs triage
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xenial |
Needs triage
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Binaries built from this source package are in Universe and so are supported by the community. |
Severity score breakdown
Parameter | Value |
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Base score | 8.6 |
Attack vector | Network |
Attack complexity | Low |
Privileges required | None |
User interaction | None |
Scope | Changed |
Confidentiality | None |
Integrity impact | None |
Availability impact | High |
Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |