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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: ALPINE-CVE-2022-33746

P2M pool freeing may take excessively long The P2M pool backing second level address translation for guests may be of significant size. Therefore its freeing may take more time than is reasonable without intermediate preemption checks. Such checking for the need to preempt was so far missing.

Products
xen
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
4.15.4-r0, 4.16.3-r0, 4.17.0-r0
CVEs
CVE-2022-33746
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

ALPINE-CVE-2022-33746

core-osv · Original source

Published 11 Oct 2022, 13:15 UTC

P2M pool freeing may take excessively long The P2M pool backing second level address translation for guests may be of significant size. Therefore its freeing may take more time than is reasonable without intermediate preemption checks. Such checking for the need to preempt was so far missing.

osv:ALPINE-CVE-2022-33746

xen

Fixed versions: 4.15.4-r0

xen

Fixed versions: 4.15.4-r0

xen

Fixed versions: 4.16.3-r0

xen

Fixed versions: 4.16.3-r0

xen

Fixed versions: 4.17.0-r0

xen

Fixed versions: 4.17.0-r0

xen

Fixed versions: 4.17.0-r0

xen

Fixed versions: 4.17.0-r0

xen

Fixed versions: 4.17.0-r0

xen

Fixed versions: 4.17.0-r0

xen

Fixed versions: 4.17.0-r0

Complete source record
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