guests may exceed their designated memory limit When a guest is permitted to have close to 16TiB of memory, it may be able to issue hypercalls to increase its memory allocation beyond the administrator established limit. This is a result of a calculation done with 32-bit precision, which may overflow. It would then only be the overflowed (and hence small) number which gets compared against the established upper bound.
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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5017-1 xen security update
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: XEN

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T21:47:33.187Z

Reserved: 2021-03-18T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-28706

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-11-24T01:15:08.127

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:00:11.083

Link: CVE-2021-28706

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