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CVE-2023-46836
Date: January 5, 2024
The fixes for XSA-422 (Branch Type Confusion) and XSA-434 (Speculative Return Stack Overflow) are not IRQ-safe. It was believed that the mitigations always operated in contexts with IRQs disabled. However, the original XSA-254 fix for Meltdown (XPTI) deliberately left interrupts enabled on two entry paths; one unconditionally, and one conditionally on whether XPTI was active. As BTC/SRSO and Meltdown affect different CPU vendors, the mitigations are not active together by default. Therefore, there is a race condition whereby a malicious PV guest can bypass BTC/SRSO protections and launch a BTC/SRSO attack against Xen.
Language: C
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NVD-CWE-noinfoCVSS v3.1
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Attack Vector (AV): | LOCAL |
Attack Complexity (AC): | HIGH |
Privileges Required (PR): | LOW |
User Interaction (UI): | NONE |
Scope (S): | UNCHANGED |
Confidentiality (C): | HIGH |
Integrity (I): | NONE |
Availability (A): | NONE |