xen — security advisory
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.
- Products
- xen
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.15.4-r0
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-33744
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 14:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2022-33744
xen
Fixed versions: 4.15.4-r0
xen
Fixed versions: 4.15.4-r0
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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