CVE-2021-26930

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 3.11 through 5.10.16, as used by Xen. To service requests to the PV backend, the driver maps grant references provided by the frontend. In this process, errors may be encountered. In one case, an error encountered earlier might be discarded by later processing, resulting in the caller assuming successful mapping, and hence subsequent operations trying to access space that wasn't mapped. In another case, internal state would be insufficiently updated, preventing safe recovery from the error. This affects drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-26930

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-26930.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.10.18.hardened1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.10.19-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.19-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.10.19-1
debian debiansidfixed5.10.19-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.10.19-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.