UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23033

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23033

    Published: 25 Jan 2022Last Modified: 20 May 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2022-23033

    Summary:

    Details: arm: guest_physmap_remove_page not removing the p2m mappings The functions to remove one or more entries from a guest p2m pagetable on Arm (p2m_remove_mapping, guest_physmap_remove_page, and p2m_set_entry with mfn set to INVALID_MFN) do not actually clear the pagetable entry if the entry doesn't have the valid bit set. It is possible to have a valid pagetable entry without the valid bit set when a guest operating system uses set/way cache maintenance instructions. For instance, a guest issuing a set/way cache maintenance instruction, then calling the XENMEM_decrease_reservation hypercall to give back memory pages to Xen, might be able to retain access to those pages even after Xen started reusing them for other purposes.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-23033, https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-393.html, https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-393.txt, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23033

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xen

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/xen?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.5.1-0ubuntu1
    4.5.1-0ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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