CVSS 3.1
8.6 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2021-28706
High (8.6). EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
guests may exceed their designated memory limit When a guest is permitted to have close to 16TiB of memory, it may be able to issue hypercalls to increase its memory allocation beyond the administrator established limit. This is a result of a calculation done with 32-bit precision, which may overflow. It would then only be the overflowed (and hence small) number which gets compared against the established upper bound.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 82% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-770
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- xen:xen
References
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7ZGWVVRI4XY2XSTBI3XEMWBXPDVX6OT/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PXUI4VMD52CH3T7YXAG3J2JW7ZNN3SXF/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5017
- https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-385.txt