CVE-2021-28710

certain VT-d IOMMUs may not work in shared page table mode For efficiency reasons, address translation control structures (page tables) may (and, on suitable hardware, by default will) be shared between CPUs, for second-level translation (EPT), and IOMMUs. These page tables are presently set up to always be 4 levels deep. However, an IOMMU may require the use of just 3 page table levels. In such a configuration the lop level table needs to be stripped before inserting the root table's address into the hardware pagetable base register. When sharing page tables, Xen erroneously skipped this stripping. Consequently, the guest is able to write to leaf page table entries.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.15.0:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

21 Nov 2024, 06:00

Type Values Removed Values Added
References () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7ZGWVVRI4XY2XSTBI3XEMWBXPDVX6OT/ - () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7ZGWVVRI4XY2XSTBI3XEMWBXPDVX6OT/ -
References () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-23 - Third Party Advisory () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-23 - Third Party Advisory
References () https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-390.txt - Vendor Advisory () https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-390.txt - Vendor Advisory

07 Nov 2023, 03:32

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7ZGWVVRI4XY2XSTBI3XEMWBXPDVX6OT/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2021-03645e9807', 'tags': ['Mailing List', 'Third Party Advisory'], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7ZGWVVRI4XY2XSTBI3XEMWBXPDVX6OT/ -

Information

Published : 2021-11-21 15:15

Updated : 2024-11-21 06:00


NVD link : CVE-2021-28710

Mitre link : CVE-2021-28710

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-28710


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Products Affected

xen

  • xen

fedoraproject

  • fedora
CWE
CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management