CVE-2022-33747
LOWXen - Unbounded Memory Consumption via P2M Mapping Manipulation
Title source: llmDescription
Arm: unbounded memory consumption for 2nd-level page tables Certain actions require e.g. removing pages from a guest's P2M (Physical-to-Machine) mapping. When large pages are in use to map guest pages in the 2nd-stage page tables, such a removal operation may incur a memory allocation (to replace a large mapping with individual smaller ones). These memory allocations are taken from the global memory pool. A malicious guest might be able to cause the global memory pool to be exhausted by manipulating its own P2M mappings.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/10/11/5
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWSC77GS5NATI3TT7FMVPULUPXR635XQ/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5272
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TJOMUNGW6VTK5CZZRLWLVVEOUPEQBRHI/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZVXG7OOOXCX6VIPEMLFDPIPUTFAYWPE/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-409.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-409.txt
Scores
CVSS v3
3.8
EPSS
0.0003
EPSS Percentile
8.7%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Details
CWE
CWE-404
Status
published
Products (5)
debian/debian_linux
11.0
fedoraproject/fedora
35
fedoraproject/fedora
36
fedoraproject/fedora
37
xen/xen
Published
Oct 11, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026