CVE-2022-23034

MEDIUM

Xen 3.2.0-4.12.x - Denial of Service via Grant Mapping Reference Count Underflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A PV guest could DoS Xen while unmapping a grant To address XSA-380, reference counting was introduced for grant mappings for the case where a PV guest would have the IOMMU enabled. PV guests can request two forms of mappings. When both are in use for any individual mapping, unmapping of such a mapping can be requested in two steps. The reference count for such a mapping would then mistakenly be decremented twice. Underflow of the counters gets detected, resulting in the triggering of a hypervisor bug check.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-394.txt
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/25/3
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5117
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-23

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 28.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-191
Status published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 11.0
fedoraproject/fedora 34
xen/xen 3.2.0 - 4.13.0
Published Jan 25, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026