CVE-2020-27675

kernel: xen: race condition in event-channel removal during the event-handling loop (XSA-331)

Published Oct 22, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 4.7 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2483-1 linux-4.19 security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2494-1 linux security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-20179 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4679-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4680-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4681-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4751-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
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Status
PUBLISHED
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mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 4:18 PM
Reserved
Oct 22, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 22, 2020, 9:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:09 AM
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Public date
Oct 20, 2020, 12:00 AM