CVE-2022-26356
What it is
Racy interactions between dirty vram tracking and paging log dirty hypercalls Activation of log dirty mode done by XEN_DMOP_track_dirty_vram (was named HVMOP_track_dirty_vram before Xen 4.9) is racy with ongoing log dirty hypercalls. A suitably timed call to XEN_DMOP_track_dirty_vram can enable log dirty while another CPU is still in the process of tearing down the structures related to a previously enabled log dirty mode (XEN_DOMCTL_SHADOW_OP_OFF). This is due to lack of mutually exclusive locking between both operations and can lead to entries being added in already freed slots, resulting in a memory leak.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited locally on the machine with a low-privilege account. High risk of service disruption.
- Exploit odds
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 0.2% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 5.6 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.2% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-667
- Record status
- Modified
Affected
- Xen < 4.12.0
- Xen < 4.14.0
- Xen < 4.16.0
- Debian Linux 11.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora 34
- Fedoraproject Fedora 35
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 5.6
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Is it in your code?
Hand this to your coding agent. It searches your project for the affected products and checks versions. Nothing leaves your machine.
Read https://cve-list.com/agent/cve/CVE-2022-26356.md and follow it. Check whether this project is affected by CVE-2022-26356. Read only. Don't change anything and don't upload my code. Tell me yes, no or not sure, with the file as proof.
Fix and advisories
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/05/1
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-397.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/05/1
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-397.html
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/05/1
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-397.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6ETPM2OVZZ6KOS2L7QO7SIW6XWT5OW3F/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UHFSRVLM2JUCPDC2KGB7ETPQYJLCGBLD/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5117
- https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-397.txt
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/05/1
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-397.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6ETPM2OVZZ6KOS2L7QO7SIW6XWT5OW3F/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UHFSRVLM2JUCPDC2KGB7ETPQYJLCGBLD/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5117
- https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-397.txt