CVE-2023-46837

Arm provides multiple helpers to clean & invalidate the cache for a given region. This is, for instance, used when allocating guest memory to ensure any writes (such as the ones during scrubbing) have reached memory before handing over the page to a guest. Unfortunately, the arithmetics in the helpers can overflow and would then result to skip the cache cleaning/invalidation. Therefore there is no guarantee when all the writes will reach the memory. This undefined behavior was meant to be addressed by XSA-437, but the approach was not sufficient.

CVSS v3 3.3 LOW

3.3^/10

CVSS v3 : LOW

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 1.4

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JFVKWYQFRUU3CAS53THTUKXEOUDWI42G/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XLL6SQ6IKFYXLYWITYZCRV5IBRK5G35R/
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-447.html	Patch Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2024-01-05 17:15

Updated : 2024-02-15 03:15

NVD link : CVE-2023-46837

Mitre link : CVE-2023-46837

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-46837

JSON object : View

Products Affected

xen

xen

CWE

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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