CVE-2023-46837
LOWXen < 4.16 - Memory Corruption via Cache Cleaning Helper Arithmetic Overflow
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-447.html
Various Sources
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-447.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/JFVKWYQFRUU3CAS53THTUKXEOUDWI42G/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XLL6SQ6IKFYXLYWITYZCRV5IBRK5G35R/
Scores
CVSS v3
3.3
EPSS
0.0008
EPSS Percentile
23.6%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (1)
xen/xen
< 4.16
Published
Jan 05, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026