Use After Free Affecting xen package, versions <4.17.0-r5
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE320-XEN-7012614
- published 23 May 2024
- disclosed 21 Mar 2023
Introduced: 21 Mar 2023
CVE-2022-42332 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.20 xen to version 4.17.0-r5 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen package and not the xen package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.
x86 shadow plus log-dirty mode use-after-free In environments where host assisted address translation is necessary but Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP) is unavailable, Xen will run guests in so called shadow mode. Shadow mode maintains a pool of memory used for both shadow page tables as well as auxiliary data structures. To migrate or snapshot guests, Xen additionally runs them in so called log-dirty mode. The data structures needed by the log-dirty tracking are part of aformentioned auxiliary data. In order to keep error handling efforts within reasonable bounds, for operations which may require memory allocations shadow mode logic ensures up front that enough memory is available for the worst case requirements. Unfortunately, while page table memory is properly accounted for on the code path requiring the potential establishing of new shadows, demands by the log-dirty infrastructure were not taken into consideration. As a result, just established shadow page tables could be freed again immediately, while other code is still accessing them on the assumption that they would remain allocated.
References
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5L6PM4RE7MUE6OWA32ZVOXCP235RM2TM/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/APBMS2Q6746AXAFAITNJMGBNFGNMVLWR/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/21/1
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-427.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5L6PM4RE7MUE6OWA32ZVOXCP235RM2TM/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/APBMS2Q6746AXAFAITNJMGBNFGNMVLWR/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5378
- https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-427.txt