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CVE-2021-28697

grant table v2 status pages may remain accessible after de-allocation Guest get permitted access to certain Xen-owned pages of memory. The majority of such pages remain allocated / associated with a guest for its entire lifetime. Grant table v2 status pages, however, get de-allocated when a guest switched (back) from v2 to v1. The freeing of such pages requires that the hypervisor know where in…

Severity
High 7.8
Published
27 Aug 2021
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
XenServers and applications · cpe:o:xen:xen
  • From 4.0.0 up to 4.15.0

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28697
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28697