Medium severity · published Apr 5, 2022
CVE-2022-26356
Racy interactions between dirty vram tracking and paging log dirty hypercalls Activation of log dirty mode done by XEN_DMOP_track_dirty_vram (was named HVMOP_track_dirty_vram…
5.6
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Racy interactions between dirty vram tracking and paging log dirty hypercalls Activation of log dirty mode done by XEN_DMOP_track_dirty_vram (was named HVMOP_track_dirty_vram before Xen 4.9) is racy with ongoing log dirty hypercalls. A suitably timed call to XEN_DMOP_track_dirty_vram can enable log dirty while another CPU is still in the process of tearing down the structures related to a previously enabled log dirty mode (XEN_DOMCTL_SHADOW_OP_OFF). This is due to lack of mutually exclusive locking between both operations and can lead to entries being added in already freed slots, resulting in a memory leak.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 15% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
11.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
34; 35 · source: NVD
XE
Xen · Xen
4.0.0 before 4.12.0; 4.13.0 before 4.14.0; 4.15.0 before 4.16.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-26356
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-26356
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/05/1
Patch
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-397.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6ETPM2OVZZ6KOS2L7QO7SIW6XWT5OW3F/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UHFSRVLM2JUCPDC2KGB7ETPQYJLCGBLD/
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5117
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