CVE-2020-27672
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-10-22 20:33
Modified
2024-08-04 16:18
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a host OS denial of service, achieve data corruption, or possibly gain privileges by exploiting a race condition that leads to a use-after-free involving 2MiB and 1GiB superpages.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00075.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00025.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-345.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XIK57QJOVOPWH6RFRNMGOBCROBCKMDG2/
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4804Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-345.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
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