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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-28038

A host OS denial of service may occur during misbehavior of a networking frontend driver.

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 0.71%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.71%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.3, as used with Xen PV. A certain part of the netback driver lacks necessary treatment of errors such as failed memory allocations (as a result of changes to the handling of grant mapping errors). A host OS denial of service may occur during misbehavior of a networking frontend driver. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2021-26931.

CVSS 3.1
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.71% probability · 51th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-770
Affected
linux/linux kernel · debian/debian linux · netapp/cloud backup · netapp/solidfire baseboard management controller firmware
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.