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CVE-2021-28702

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-10-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

PCI devices with RMRRs not deassigned correctly Certain PCI devices in a system might be assigned Reserved Memory Regions (specified via Reserved Memory Region Reporting, "RMRR"). These are typically used for platform tasks such as legacy USB emulation. If such a device is passed through to a guest, then on guest shutdown the device is not properly deassigned. The IOMMU configuration for these devices which are not properly deassigned ends up pointing to a freed data structure, including the IO Pagetables. Subsequent DMA or interrupts from the device will have unpredictable behaviour, ranging from IOMMU faults to memory corruption.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 33, 34, 35
• xen: from 4.13.0 through 4.15.1

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/07/2
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2OIHEJ3R3EH5DYI2I5UMD2ULJ2ELA3EX/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FDPRMOBBLS74ONYP3IXZZXSTLKR7GRQB/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TRAWV6PO2KUGVZTESERECOBUBZ6X45I7/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-23
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5017
• https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-386.txt
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/07/2
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2OIHEJ3R3EH5DYI2I5UMD2ULJ2ELA3EX/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FDPRMOBBLS74ONYP3IXZZXSTLKR7GRQB/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TRAWV6PO2KUGVZTESERECOBUBZ6X45I7/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-23

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