CVE-2025-27465
MEDIUMXen >= 4.9.0 - Denial of Service via Exception Handling in Replayed Instruction Emulation
Title source: llmDescription
Certain instructions need intercepting and emulating by Xen. In some cases Xen emulates the instruction by replaying it, using an executable stub. Some instructions may raise an exception, which is supposed to be handled gracefully. Certain replayed instructions have additional logic to set up and recover the changes to the arithmetic flags. For replayed instructions where the flags recovery logic is used, the metadata for exception handling was incorrect, preventing Xen from handling the the exception gracefully, treating it as fatal instead.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-470.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/07/01/1
Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-470.html
Scores
CVSS v3
4.3
EPSS
0.0053
EPSS Percentile
40.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-755
Status
published
Products (1)
xen/xen
4.9.0
Published
Jul 16, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026