Vulnerability CVE-2022-26362


Published: 2022-06-09

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.

 References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/06/09/3
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-401.txt
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-401.html

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