Improper handling of exceptional conditions in Xen - CVE-2022-33748
Published: August 11, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU79450
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-33748
CWE-ID: CWE-755
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Xen Project
Affected software:
Xen
Xen
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to lock order inversion in transitive grant copy handling As part of XSA-226 a missing cleanup call was inserted on an error handling path. A local user can send specially crafted input and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2022-33748
Install updates from vendor's website.
Sources
- https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-411.txt
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-411.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/10/11/2
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWSC77GS5NATI3TT7FMVPULUPXR635XQ/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5272
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TJOMUNGW6VTK5CZZRLWLVVEOUPEQBRHI/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZVXG7OOOXCX6VIPEMLFDPIPUTFAYWPE/