CVE-2021-26934 Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [4.18,5.10.17)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006630
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Feb 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Feb 2021

CVE-2021-26934  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.10.17 or higher.

Overview

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 4.18 through 5.10.16, as used by Xen. The backend allocation (aka be-alloc) mode of the drm_xen_front drivers was not meant to be a supported configuration, but this wasn't stated accordingly in its support status entry.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1