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Unscored CVE-2021-26933 EUVD-2021-13715GHSA-3c29-qfhr-mp78

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.9 through 4.14.x. On Arm, a guest is allowed to control whether memory accesses are bypassing the cache. T…

Published Feb 17, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.9 through 4.14.x. On Arm, a guest is allowed to control whether memory accesses are bypassing the cache. This means that Xen needs to ensure that all writes (such as the ones during scrubbing) have reached the memory before handing over the page to a guest. Unfortunately, the operation to clean the cache is happening before checking if the page was scrubbed. Therefore there is no guarantee when all the writes will reach the memory.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 xen 4.14.1+11-gb0b734a8b3-1 —
Debian 13 xen 4.14.1+11-gb0b734a8b3-1 —
Debian 12 xen 4.14.1+11-gb0b734a8b3-1 —
Debian 10 xen 4.11.4+99-g8bce4698f6-1 DSA-4888-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 xen No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS xen No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 xen No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS xen No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS xen No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS xen No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS xen No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS xen No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 xen 4.14.1-r3 —
Alpine v3.23 xen 4.14.1-r3 —
Alpine v3.22 xen 4.14.1-r3 —
Alpine v3.21 xen 4.14.1-r3 —
Alpine v3.20 xen 4.14.1-r3 —
Show 9 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.19 xen 4.14.1-r3 —
Alpine v3.18 xen 4.14.1-r3 —
Alpine v3.17 xen 4.14.1-r3 —
Alpine v3.16 xen 4.14.1-r3 —
Alpine v3.15 xen 4.14.1-r3 —
Alpine v3.14 xen 4.14.1-r3 —
Alpine v3.13 xen 4.14.1-r2 —
Alpine v3.12 xen 4.13.2-r5 —
Alpine v3.11 xen 4.13.2-r5 —

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