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CVE-2021-28691

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CVE-2021-28691

Published: Jun 29, 2021

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Guest triggered use-after-free in Linux xen-netback A malicious or buggy network PV frontend can force Linux netback to disable the interface and terminate the receive kernel thread associated with queue 0 in response to the frontend sending a malformed packet. Such kernel thread termination will lead to a use-after-free in Linux netback when the backend is destroyed, as the kernel thread associated with queue 0 will have already exited and thus the call to kthread_stop will be performed against a stale pointer.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

unknown
unspecified - < 4.12
affected
5.5.0 - < unspecified
unaffected
next of 5.12.2 - < unspecified

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