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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-28702: Improper Privilege Management

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-28702: Improper Privilege Management

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/06/2021
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

PCI devices with RMRRs not deassigned correctly Certain PCI devices in a system might be assigned Reserved Memory Regions (specified via Reserved Memory Region Reporting, "RMRR"). These are typically used for platform tasks such as legacy USB emulation. If such a device is passed through to a guest, then on guest shutdown the device is not properly deassigned. The IOMMU configuration for these devices which are not properly deassigned ends up pointing to a freed data structure, including the IO Pagetables. Subsequent DMA or interrupts from the device will have unpredictable behaviour, ranging from IOMMU faults to memory corruption.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

References

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