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CVE-2021-28706 · cross-distro fix matrix

CVE-2021-28706: 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 overflo

Affects 3 Linux releases across 3 (distro × package) combinations.

Fix per ecosystem

Each block below is a distro release where CVE-2021-28706 has a known fix. Run the listed command on that distro to remediate.

Debian bullseye

Source: Debian Security Tracker

  • xen→ fixed in4.14.3+32-g9de3671772-1~deb11u1urgency: not yet assigned
    sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y xen

Debian bookworm

Source: Debian Security Tracker

  • xen→ fixed in4.14.3+32-g9de3671772-1urgency: not yet assigned
    sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y xen

Debian trixie

Source: Debian Security Tracker

  • xen→ fixed in4.14.3+32-g9de3671772-1urgency: not yet assigned
    sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y xen
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