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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2022-26356

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.

MEDIUM 5.6EPSS 0.24%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.24%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

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.

CVSS 3.1
5.6 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.24% probability · 15th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-667
Affected
xen/xen · debian/debian linux · fedoraproject/fedora
Source
security@xen.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.