CVE-2022-33744

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-07-05 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Arm guests can cause Dom0 DoS via PV devices When mapping pages of guests on Arm, dom0 is using an rbtree to keep track of the foreign mappings. Updating of that rbtree is not always done completely with the related lock held, resulting in a small race window, which can be used by unprivileged guests via PV devices to cause inconsistencies of the rbtree. These inconsistencies can lead to Denial of Service (DoS) of dom0, e.g. by causing crashes or the inability to perform further mappings of other guests' memory pages.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 10.0, 11.0
Linux kernel: from 3.13 through 5.18

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/05/4
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-406.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00000.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5191
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-406.txt
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/07/05/4
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-406.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00000.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5191
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-406.txt

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