CVE-2022-26362

Medium

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 mapping before writeability is prohibited.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.4
Exploit probability—
ProductXen
PublishedJun 9, 2022
First seenJun 9, 2022

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
xen xenNo range specified—
fedoraproject fedora35, 36—
debian debian_linux11.0—

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