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CVE-2023-46837

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Published: Jan 5, 2024Modified: Nov 4, 2025

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3.3
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 1.4
Source: NVD

Description

Arm provides multiple helpers to clean & invalidate the cache for a given region. This is, for instance, used when allocating guest memory to ensure any writes (such as the ones during scrubbing) have reached memory before handing over the page to a guest. Unfortunately, the arithmetics in the helpers can overflow and would then result to skip the cache cleaning/invalidation. Therefore there is no guarantee when all the writes will reach the memory. This undefined behavior was meant to be addressed by XSA-437, but the approach was not sufficient.

Affected (1)

Products: Xen: Xen
1 product
Xen
Configuration A
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Up to 4.16

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