CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-28691
High (7.8). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 30% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
- netapp:cloud_backup
- netapp:h300e_firmware
- netapp:h300s_firmware
- netapp:h410c_firmware
- netapp:h410s_firmware
- netapp:h500e_firmware
- netapp:h500s_firmware
- netapp:h700e_firmware
- netapp:h700s_firmware
- netapp:solidfire_baseboard_management_controller