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CVE-2021-28701

Another race in XENMAPSPACE_grant_table handling Guests are 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, are de-allocated when a guest switches (back) from v2 to v1. Freeing such pages requires that the hypervisor enforce that no parallel request can…

Severity
High 7.8
Published
8 Sept 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 on

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28701
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28701