CVSS 3.1
4.7 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2020-27675
Medium (4.7). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 19% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-362, CWE-416, CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/3
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=073d0552ead5bfc7a3a9c01de590e924f11b5dd2
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/073d0552ead5bfc7a3a9c01de590e924f11b5dd2
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00027.html