| Name | CVE-2024-31142 |
| Description | Because of a logical error in XSA-407 (Branch Type Confusion), the mitigation is not applied properly when it is intended to be used. XSA-434 (Speculative Return Stack Overflow) uses the same infrastructure, so is equally impacted. For more details, see: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-407.html https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-434.html |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| xen (PTS) | bullseye | 4.14.6-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1~deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| xen | source | buster | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| xen | source | bullseye | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| xen | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
[bookworm] - xen <postponed> (Minor issue, fix along in next DSA)
[bullseye] - xen <end-of-life> (EOLed in Bullseye)
[buster] - xen <end-of-life> (DSA 4677-1)
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-455.html