CVE-2023-46837

arm32: The cache may not be properly cleaned/invalidated (take two)

Low · published January 5, 2024

CVSS v3.1
3.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
3.3 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00241 · 14.4th percentile
Published
2024-01-05T16:36Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 JAN 16:36Z
    arm32: The cache may not be properly cleaned/invalidated (take two)
    cvelistv5