CVE-2021-28702

HIGH
7.6
CVSS Score
Published: October 6, 2021 at 01:13 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:46 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraXen

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Severity
HIGH7.6
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

Description

PCI devices with RMRRs not deassigned correctly Certain PCI devices in a system might be assigned Reserved Memory Regions (specified via Reserved Memory Region Reporting, "RMRR"). These are typically used for platform tasks such as legacy USB emulation. If such a device is passed through to a guest, then on guest shutdown the device is not properly deassigned. The IOMMU configuration for these devices which are not properly deassigned ends up pointing to a freed data structure, including the IO Pagetables. Subsequent DMA or interrupts from the device will have unpredictable behaviour, ranging from IOMMU faults to memory corruption.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Xen· Xenwordpress-plugin
95%
v ≥ 4.12.x4.13.0 ≤ v ≤ 4.15.14.12.x
Vendor states this is fixed in next of xen-unstable (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.12 (unknown)

CVSS

Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-269

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