An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 2.6.39 through 5.10.16, as used in Xen. Block, net, and SCSI backends consider certain errors a plain bug, deliberately causing a kernel crash. For errors potentially being at least under the influence of guests (such as out of memory conditions), it isn't correct to assume a plain bug. Memory allocations potentially causing such crashes occur only when Linux is running in PV mode, though. This affects drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c and drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-02-17T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-03T20:33:41.548Z

Reserved: 2021-02-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-26931

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-02-17T02:15:12.987

Modified: 2024-03-25T01:15:50.217

Link: CVE-2021-26931

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