CVE-2020-27672
High
CVE-2020-27672
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a host OS denial of service, achieve data corruption, or possibly gain privileges by exploiting a race condition that leads to a use-after-free involving 2MiB and 1GiB superpages.
Exploit probability
0.3%
Published
October 22, 2020
Required by
Not available
Last source change
March 15, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2020-27672
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An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a host OS denial of service, achieve data corruption, or possibly gain privileges by exploiting a race condition that leads to a use-after-free involving 2MiB and 1GiB superpages.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00075.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00025.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/19/7
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-345.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XIK57QJOVOPWH6RFRNMGOBCROBCKMDG2/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-06
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4804
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-345.html