Bug 1997567 (CVE-2021-28695)

Summary: CVE-2021-28695 xen: discontinuous range is specified by firmware leads to vulnerability
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2021-08-25 13:07:12 UTC
On AMD systems, where a discontinuous range is specified by firmware, the supposedly-excluded middle range will also be identity-mapped.

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2021-08-25 13:09:01 UTC
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1997568]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-08-26 15:35:53 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.