CVE-2022-26362

x86 pv: Race condition in typeref acquisition Xen maintains a type reference count for pages, in addition to a regular reference count

published June 9, 2022

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
30.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

x86 pv: Race condition in typeref acquisition Xen maintains a type reference count for pages, in addition to a regular reference count. This scheme is used to maintain invariants required for Xen's safety, e.g. PV guests may not have direct writeable access to pagetables; updates need auditing by Xen. Unfortunately, the logic for acquiring a type reference has a race condition, whereby a safely TLB flush is issued too early and creates a window where the guest can re-establish the read/write mapping before writeability is prohibited.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00379 · 30.7th percentile
Published
2022-06-09T12:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 JUN 12:50Z
    x86 pv: Race condition in typeref acquisition Xen maintains a type reference count for pages, in addition to a regular reference count
    cvelistv5