medium5.5
CVE-2020-27673
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x.
Impact
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. Guest OS users can cause a denial of service (host OS hang) via a high rate of events to dom0, aka CID-e99502f76271.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux Kernel | from 2.6.12 before 4.4.244 from 4.5.0 before 4.9.244 from 4.10.0 before 4.14.207 from 4.15.0 before 4.19.155 from 4.20.0 before 5.4.75 from 5.5.0 before 5.9.5 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 9.0 |
| Opensuse | Leap | Versions 15.1, 15.2 |
| Xen | Xen | through 4.14.0 |
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00075.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00025.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/6
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e99502f76271d6bc4e374fe368c50c67a1fd3070
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e99502f76271d6bc4e374fe368c50c67a1fd3070
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-332.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00075.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00025.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/6
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e99502f76271d6bc4e374fe368c50c67a1fd3070
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e99502f76271d6bc4e374fe368c50c67a1fd3070
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-332.html