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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2021-26932

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 3.2 through 5.10.16, as used by Xen. Grant mapping operations often occur in batch hypercalls, where a number of operations are done in a single hypercall, the success or failure of each one is reported to the backend driver, and the backend driver then loops over the results, performing follow-up actions based on the success or failure of each operation. Unfortunately, when running in PV mode, the Linux backend drivers mishandle this: Some errors are ignored, effectively implying their success from the success of related batch elements. In other cases, errors resulting from one batch element lead to further batch elements not being inspected, and hence successful ones to not be possible to properly unmap upon error recovery. Only systems with Linux backends running in PV mode are vulnerable. Linux backends run in HVM / PVH modes are not vulnerable. This affects arch/*/xen/p2m.c and drivers/xen/gntdev.c.

Products
linux
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
5.10.19-1
CVEs
CVE-2021-26932
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 01:41 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-26932

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 Feb 2021, 02:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 3.2 through 5.10.16, as used by Xen. Grant mapping operations often occur in batch hypercalls, where a number of operations are done in a single hypercall, the success or failure of each one is reported to the backend driver, and the backend driver then loops over the results, performing follow-up actions based on the success or failure of each operation. Unfortunately, when running in PV mode, the Linux backend drivers mishandle this: Some errors are ignored, effectively implying their success from the success of related batch elements. In other cases, errors resulting from one batch element lead to further batch elements not being inspected, and hence successful ones to not be possible to properly unmap upon error recovery. Only systems with Linux backends running in PV mode are vulnerable. Linux backends run in HVM / PVH modes are not vulnerable. This affects arch/*/xen/p2m.c and drivers/xen/gntdev.c.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-26932

linux

Fixed versions: 5.10.19-1

linux

Fixed versions: 5.10.19-1

linux

Fixed versions: 5.10.19-1

Complete source record
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