CVE-2021-28709

Name	CVE-2021-28709
Description	issues with partially successful P2M updates on x86 T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] x86 HVM and PVH guests may be started in populate-on-demand (PoD) mode, to provide a way for them to later easily have more memory assigned. Guests are permitted to control certain P2M aspects of individual pages via hypercalls. These hypercalls may act on ranges of pages specified via page orders (resulting in a power-of-2 number of pages). In some cases the hypervisor carries out the requests by splitting them into smaller chunks. Error handling in certain PoD cases has been insufficient in that in particular partial success of some operations was not properly accounted for. There are two code paths affected - page removal (CVE-2021-28705) and insertion of new pages (CVE-2021-28709). (We provide one patch which combines the fix to both issues.)
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-5017-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
xen (PTS)	bullseye	4.14.6-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1	fixed
	bookworm	4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1~deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin
xen	source	stretch	(unfixed)	end-of-life
xen	source	buster	(unfixed)	end-of-life
xen	source	bullseye	4.14.3+32-g9de3671772-1~deb11u1		DSA-5017-1
xen	source	(unstable)	4.14.3+32-g9de3671772-1

[buster] - xen <end-of-life> (DSA 4677-1)
[stretch] - xen <end-of-life> (DSA 4602-1)
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-389.html