CVE-2020-27675
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. drivers/xen/events/events_base.c allows event-channel removal during the event-handling loop (a race condition).
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.27%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.9.1, as used with Xen through 4.14.x. drivers/xen/events/events_base.c allows event-channel removal during the event-handling loop (a race condition). This can cause a use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated by a dom0 crash via events for an in-reconfiguration paravirtualized device, aka CID-073d0552ead5.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.7 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.27% probability · 19th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-362, CWE-416, CWE-476
- Affected
- linux/linux kernel · fedoraproject/fedora · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=073d0552ead5bfc7a3a9c01de590e924f11b5dd2Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/073d0552ead5bfc7a3a9c01de590e924f11b5dd2Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3ZG6TZLD23QO3PV2AN2HB625ZX47ALTT/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6USZ4APZSBQDHGJLJMHW5JBN4QZV6SKZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GNF2R7FUT4IOJ2RIRGQ7X5R4F4FVVLSR/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06Third Party Advisory
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-331.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=073d0552ead5bfc7a3a9c01de590e924f11b5dd2Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/073d0552ead5bfc7a3a9c01de590e924f11b5dd2Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3ZG6TZLD23QO3PV2AN2HB625ZX47ALTT/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6USZ4APZSBQDHGJLJMHW5JBN4QZV6SKZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GNF2R7FUT4IOJ2RIRGQ7X5R4F4FVVLSR/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06Third Party Advisory
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-331.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.