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CVE-2022-33745 (GCVE-0-2022-33745)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-07-26 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 08:09
VLAI
Summary
insufficient TLB flush for x86 PV guests in shadow mode For migration as well as to work around kernels unaware of L1TF (see XSA-273), PV guests may be run in shadow paging mode. To address XSA-401, code was moved inside a function in Xen. This code movement missed a variable changing meaning / value between old and new code positions. The now wrong use of the variable did lead to a wrong TLB flush condition, omitting flushes where such are necessary.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • unknown
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Xen xen Unknown: consult Xen advisory XSA-408
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Credits
{'credit_data': {'description': {'description_data': [{'lang': 'eng', 'value': 'This issue was discovered by Charles Arnold of SUSE.'}]}}}
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