SB2022072813 - Denial of service in Xen
Published: July 28, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022072813
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-33744)
The vulnerability allows an attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of foreign mappings performed by rbtree when mapping pages of Arm guests. An unprivileged Arm guest can cause inconsistencies of the rbtree via PV devices, which can lead to denial of service of dom0 and cause crashes or the inability to perform further mappings of other guests' memory pages.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.