CVE-2021-26931

Published Feb 17, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2586-1 linux security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2610-1 linux-4.19 security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4904-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4909-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4946-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4949-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 8:33 PM
Reserved
Feb 9, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 17, 2021, 2:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:44 AM