CVE-2022-26362Race Condition in XEN

CWE-362Race Condition4 documents4 sources
Severity
6.4MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 85.52%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJun 9
Latest updateJun 10

Description

x86 pv: Race condition in typeref acquisition Xen maintains a type reference count for pages, in addition to a regular reference count. This scheme is used to maintain invariants required for Xen's safety, e.g. PV guests may not have direct writeable access to pagetables; updates need auditing by Xen. Unfortunately, the logic for acquiring a type reference has a race condition, whereby a safely TLB flush is issued too early and creates a window where the guest can re-establish the read/write map

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 0.5 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

debiandebian/xen< xen 4.16.2-1 (bookworm)
Debianxen/xen< 4.14.5+24-g87d90d511c-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0, Fedora 35, 36

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-2mfj-vmvj-q937: x86 pv: Race condition in typeref acquisition Xen maintains a type reference count for pages, in addition to a regular reference count2022-06-10
OSV
CVE-2022-26362: x86 pv: Race condition in typeref acquisition Xen maintains a type reference count for pages, in addition to a regular reference count2022-06-09

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2022-26362: xen - x86 pv: Race condition in typeref acquisition Xen maintains a type reference cou...2022