Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-27675 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=073d0552ead5bfc7a3a9c01de590e924f11b5dd2
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/073d0552ead5bfc7a3a9c01de590e924f11b5dd2
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-331.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/3
- 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/