CVE-2022-33748Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions in XEN

Severity
5.6MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 88.49%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedOct 11

Description

lock order inversion in transitive grant copy handling As part of XSA-226 a missing cleanup call was inserted on an error handling path. While doing so, locking requirements were not paid attention to. As a result two cooperating guests granting each other transitive grants can cause locks to be acquired nested within one another, but in respectively opposite order. With suitable timing between the involved grant copy operations this may result in the locking up of a CPU.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.1 | Impact: 4.0

Affected Packages3 packages

debiandebian/xen< xen 4.16.2+90-g0d39a6d1ae-1 (bookworm)
Debianxen/xen< 4.14.5+86-g1c354767d5-1+3
NVDxen/xen

Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0, Fedora 35, 36, 37

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2022-33748: lock order inversion in transitive grant copy handling As part of XSA-226 a missing cleanup call was inserted on an error handling path2022-10-11
GHSA
GHSA-fqrh-w8r3-22q6: lock order inversion in transitive grant copy handling As part of XSA-226 a missing cleanup call was inserted on an error handling path2022-10-11

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2022-33748: xen - lock order inversion in transitive grant copy handling As part of XSA-226 a miss...2022