CVE-2022-26362
Published: 9 June 2022
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 mapping before writeability is prohibited.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | hypervisor packages are in universe. For issues in the hypervisor, add appropriate tags to each section, ex: Tags_xen: universe-binary |
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
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xen Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
bionic |
Needs triage
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| focal |
Needs triage
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| impish |
Ignored
(end of life)
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| jammy |
Needs triage
|
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| kinetic |
Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
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| lunar |
Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
|
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| mantic |
Needs triage
|
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| trusty |
Does not exist
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| upstream |
Needs triage
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| xenial |
Needs triage
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| Binaries built from this source package are in Universe and so are supported by the community. | ||
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score | 6.4 |
| Attack vector | Local |
| Attack complexity | High |
| Privileges required | High |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity impact | High |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |