CVE-2021-26932: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 3.2 through 5.10.16, as used by Xen. Grant mapping operations often occur in batch hypercalls, where a number of operations are done in a single hypercall, the success or failure of each one is reported to the backend driver, and the backend driver then loops over the results, performing follow-up actions based on the success or failure of each operation. Unfortunately, when running in PV mode, the Linux backend drivers mishandle this: Some errors are ignored, effectively implying their success from the success of related batch elements. In other cases, errors resulting from one batch element lead to further batch elements not being inspected, and hence successful ones to not be possible to properly unmap upon error recovery. Only systems with Linux backends running in PV mode are vulnerable. Linux backends run in HVM / PVH modes are not vulnerable. This affects arch/*/xen/p2m.c and drivers/xen/gntdev.c.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 32 only; version 33 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.2, up to and including 5.10.16
• Netapp Cloud Backup: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Hci Compute Node: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Hci h410c Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire, Enterprise Sds & Hci Storage Node: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire & Hci Management Node: affected versions not specified

Published 2021-02-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.