CVE-2022-26356

MEDIUM

Xen 4.0.0-4.11.x - Memory Leak via Racy Dirty VRAM Tracking and Paging Log Dirty Hypercalls

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.6
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 15.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
fedoraproject/fedora 34
fedoraproject/fedora 35
xen/xen 4.0.0 - 4.12.0
Published Apr 05, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026