Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 29, 2021· Updated Aug 3, 2024
CVE-2021-28691
CVE-2021-28691
Description
Guest triggered use-after-free in Linux xen-netback A malicious or buggy network PV frontend can force Linux netback to disable the interface and terminate the receive kernel thread associated with queue 0 in response to the frontend sending a malformed packet. Such kernel thread termination will lead to a use-after-free in Linux netback when the backend is destroyed, as the kernel thread associated with queue 0 will have already exited and thus the call to kthread_stop will be performed against a stale pointer.
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References
3- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-30mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210805-0002/mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
- xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-374.txtmitrex_refsource_MISC
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