CVE-2022-26362

Published Jun 9, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 6.4 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5184-1 xen security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-30921 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
XEN
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 5:03 AM
Reserved
Mar 2, 2022, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 9, 2022, 5:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:35 AM