CVE-2021-28691 (GCVE-0-2021-28691)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-29 11:30 – Updated: 2024-08-03 21:47
VLAI?
Summary
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 ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- unknown
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