Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux

A issue was discovered in the Linux kernel versions 2.6.39 through 5.10.16, as used in Xen. The block, net, and SCSI backends consider certain errors as ordinary bugs, which are deliberately designed to cause kernel crashes. For errors that may be influenced by guests such as memory exhaustion...

Linux: backends treating grant mapping errors as bugs

ISSUE DESCRIPTION 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, like out of memory conditions, it isn't correct to assume so. Memory allocations potentially causing such...