CVE-2023-46842

NameCVE-2023-46842
DescriptionUnlike 32-bit PV guests, HVM guests may switch freely between 64-bit and other modes. This in particular means that they may set registers used to pass 32-bit-mode hypercall arguments to values outside of the range 32-bit code would be able to set them to. When processing of hypercalls takes a considerable amount of time, the hypervisor may choose to invoke a hypercall continuation. Doing so involves putting (perhaps updated) hypercall arguments in respective registers. For guests not running in 64-bit mode this further involves a certain amount of translation of the values. Unfortunately internal sanity checking of these translated values assumes high halves of registers to always be clear when invoking a hypercall. When this is found not to be the case, it triggers a consistency check in the hypervisor and causes a crash.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
xen (PTS)bullseye4.14.6-1vulnerable
bullseye (security)4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1vulnerable
bookworm4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1~deb12u1vulnerable
sid, trixie4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
xensourcebuster(not affected)
xensourcebullseye(unfixed)end-of-life
xensource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

[bookworm] - xen <postponed> (Minor issue, fix along in next DSA)
[bullseye] - xen <end-of-life> (EOLed in Bullseye)
[buster] - xen <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-454.html

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