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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2022-33748

lock order inversion in transitive grant copy handling As part of XSA-226 a missing cleanup call was inserted on an error handling path.

MEDIUM 5.6EPSS 0.26%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.26%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

lock order inversion in transitive grant copy handling As part of XSA-226 a missing cleanup call was inserted on an error handling path. While doing so, locking requirements were not paid attention to. As a result two cooperating guests granting each other transitive grants can cause locks to be acquired nested within one another, but in respectively opposite order. With suitable timing between the involved grant copy operations this may result in the locking up of a CPU.

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
0.26% probability · 18th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-755
Affected
xen/xen · fedoraproject/fedora · debian/debian linux
Source
security@xen.org

References

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