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FKIE_CVE-2020-27675

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-10-22 21:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:09
Summary
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. drivers/xen/events/events_base.c allows event-channel removal during the event-handling loop (a race condition). This can cause a use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated by a dom0 crash via events for an in-reconfiguration paravirtualized device, aka CID-073d0552ead5.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=073d0552ead5bfc7a3a9c01de590e924f11b5dd2Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/073d0552ead5bfc7a3a9c01de590e924f11b5dd2Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3ZG6TZLD23QO3PV2AN2HB625ZX47ALTT/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6USZ4APZSBQDHGJLJMHW5JBN4QZV6SKZ/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GNF2R7FUT4IOJ2RIRGQ7X5R4F4FVVLSR/
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-331.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=073d0552ead5bfc7a3a9c01de590e924f11b5dd2Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/073d0552ead5bfc7a3a9c01de590e924f11b5dd2Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3ZG6TZLD23QO3PV2AN2HB625ZX47ALTT/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6USZ4APZSBQDHGJLJMHW5JBN4QZV6SKZ/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GNF2R7FUT4IOJ2RIRGQ7X5R4F4FVVLSR/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-331.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products

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      "value": "An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. drivers/xen/events/events_base.c allows event-channel removal during the event-handling loop (a race condition). This can cause a use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated by a dom0 crash via events for an in-reconfiguration paravirtualized device, aka CID-073d0552ead5."
    },
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  "id": "CVE-2020-27675",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T03:09:28.933",
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  "published": "2020-10-22T21:15:14.153",
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