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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2022-33748

lock order inversion in transitive grant copy handling As part of XSA-226 a missing cleanup call was inserted on an error handling path. While doing so, locking requirements were not paid attention to. As a result two cooperating guests granting each other transitive grants can cause locks to be acquired nested within one another, but in respectively opposite order. With suitable timing between the involved grant copy operations this may result in the locking up of a CPU.

Products
xen
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
4.16.2+90-g0d39a6d1ae-1
CVEs
CVE-2022-33748
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 15:01 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-33748

core-osv · Original source

Published 11 Oct 2022, 13:15 UTC

lock order inversion in transitive grant copy handling As part of XSA-226 a missing cleanup call was inserted on an error handling path. While doing so, locking requirements were not paid attention to. As a result two cooperating guests granting each other transitive grants can cause locks to be acquired nested within one another, but in respectively opposite order. With suitable timing between the involved grant copy operations this may result in the locking up of a CPU.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-33748

xen

Fixed versions: 4.16.2+90-g0d39a6d1ae-1

xen

Fixed versions: 4.16.2+90-g0d39a6d1ae-1

xen

Fixed versions: 4.16.2+90-g0d39a6d1ae-1

Complete source record
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