An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 2.6.39 through...
Vulnerability Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 2.6.39 through 5.10.16, as used in Xen. Block, net, and SCSI backends consider certain errors a plain bug, deliberately causing a kernel crash. For errors potentially being at least under the influence of guests (such as out of memory conditions), it isn't correct to assume a plain bug. Memory allocations potentially causing such crashes occur only when Linux is running in PV mode, though. This affects drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c and drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c.
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Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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References
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-362.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2XQR52ICKRK3GC4HDWLMWF2U55YGAR63/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GWQWPWYZRXVFJI5M3VCM72X27IB7CKOB/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00010.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210326-0001/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00035.html
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7c77474b2d22176d2bfb592ec74e0f2cb71352c9
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5a264285ed1cd32e26d9de4f3c8c6855e467fd63
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3194a1746e8aabe86075fd3c5e7cf1f4632d7f16
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