xen — security advisory
arm: guest_physmap_remove_page not removing the p2m mappings The functions to remove one or more entries from a guest p2m pagetable on Arm (p2m_remove_mapping, guest_physmap_remove_page, and p2m_set_entry with mfn set to INVALID_MFN) do not actually clear the pagetable entry if the entry doesn't have the valid bit set. It is possible to have a valid pagetable entry without the valid bit set when a guest operating system uses set/way cache maintenance instructions. For instance, a guest issuing a set/way cache maintenance instruction, then calling the XENMEM_decrease_reservation hypercall to give back memory pages to Xen, might be able to retain access to those pages even after Xen started reusing them for other purposes.
- Products
- xen
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.16.0+51-g0941d6cb-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-23033
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 14:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
arm: guest_physmap_remove_page not removing the p2m mappings The functions to remove one or more entries from a guest p2m pagetable on Arm (p2m_remove_mapping, guest_physmap_remove_page, and p2m_set_entry with mfn set to INVALID_MFN) do not actually clear the pagetable entry if the entry doesn't have the valid bit set. It is possible to have a valid pagetable entry without the valid bit set when a guest operating system uses set/way cache maintenance instructions. For instance, a guest issuing a set/way cache maintenance instruction, then calling the XENMEM_decrease_reservation hypercall to give back memory pages to Xen, might be able to retain access to those pages even after Xen started reusing them for other purposes.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23033
xen
Fixed versions: 4.16.0+51-g0941d6cb-1
xen
Fixed versions: 4.16.0+51-g0941d6cb-1
xen
Fixed versions: 4.16.0+51-g0941d6cb-1
Complete source record
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