Improper Check for Dropped Privileges Affecting xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk package, versions <4.17.2_08-150500.3.15.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-XENTOOLSXENDOMAINSWAITDISK-6069720
  • published18 Nov 2023
  • disclosed17 Nov 2023

Introduced: 17 Nov 2023

CVE-2023-34322  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-273  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk to version 4.17.2_08-150500.3.15.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk package and not the xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

For migration as well as to work around kernels unaware of L1TF (see XSA-273), PV guests may be run in shadow paging mode. Since Xen itself needs to be mapped when PV guests run, Xen and shadowed PV guests run directly the respective shadow page tables. For 64-bit PV guests this means running on the shadow of the guest root page table.

In the course of dealing with shortage of memory in the shadow pool associated with a domain, shadows of page tables may be torn down. This tearing down may include the shadow root page table that the CPU in question is presently running on. While a precaution exists to supposedly prevent the tearing down of the underlying live page table, the time window covered by that precaution isn't large enough.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1