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Vigil@nce - Xen, Linux: memory corruption via Linux Blkback Grant Mapping
April 2021 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerabilities-watch-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: XenServer, Debian, Fedora, Linux, openSUSE
Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, denial of service on
server, denial of service on service.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 16/02/2021.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker, inside a guest system, can trigger a memory
corruption via Linux Blkback Grant Mapping of Xen, in order to
trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code on the host
system.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Xen-Linux-memory-corruption-via-Linux-Blkback-Grant-Mapping-34593
