With its original introduction, GNTTAB_cache_flush was made available uniformly. XSA-232 (CVE-2017-14318) then covered an omitted NULL pointer check, yet the addition of that check failed to adjust the subsequent error path. That error path fails to drop a page reference in case the specified page is owned by a special system domain (DOM_IO and DOM_COW are system domains which can have memory pages assigned to them.)
History

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Weaknesses CWE-401
CWE-773

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Weaknesses CWE-404
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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First Time appeared Xen
Xen xen
Vendors & Products Xen
Xen xen

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Weaknesses CWE-401
CWE-773

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Description With its original introduction, GNTTAB_cache_flush was made available uniformly. XSA-232 (CVE-2017-14318) then covered an omitted NULL pointer check, yet the addition of that check failed to adjust the subsequent error path. That error path fails to drop a page reference in case the specified page is owned by a special system domain (DOM_IO and DOM_COW are system domains which can have memory pages assigned to them.)
Title gnttab: cache-flush handling may cause page reference leak
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: XEN

Published: 2026-10-13T15:45:27.794Z

Updated: 2026-10-20T17:16:15.958Z

Reserved: 2026-09-29T16:11:40.973Z

Link: CVE-2026-102700

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-10-13T16:11:54.099Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-13T16:17:09.623

Modified: 2026-10-20T18:17:16.277

Link: CVE-2026-102700

cve-icon Redhat

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