xen — security advisory
x86: unintended memory sharing between guests On Intel systems that support the "virtualize APIC accesses" feature, a guest can read and write the global shared xAPIC page by moving the local APIC out of xAPIC mode. Access to this shared page bypasses the expected isolation that should exist between two guests.
- Products
- xen
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.16.2+90-g0d39a6d1ae-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-42327
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 15:31 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
x86: unintended memory sharing between guests On Intel systems that support the "virtualize APIC accesses" feature, a guest can read and write the global shared xAPIC page by moving the local APIC out of xAPIC mode. Access to this shared page bypasses the expected isolation that should exist between two guests.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-42327
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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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 325119,
"published_at": "2022-11-01T13:15:12.163+00:00"
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