CVE-2022-42336

Mishandling of guest SSBD selection on AMD hardware The current logic to set SSBD on AMD Family 17h and Hygon Family 18h processors requires that the setting of SSBD is coordinated at a core level, as the setting is shared between threads. Logic was introduced to keep track of how many threads require SSBD active in order to coordinate it, such logic relies on using a per-core counter of threads that have SSBD active. When running on the mentioned hardware, it's possible for a guest to under or overflow the thread counter, because each write to VIRT_SPEC_CTRL.SSBD by the guest gets propagated to the helper that does the per-core active accounting. Underflowing the counter causes the value to get saturated, and thus attempts for guests running on the same core to set SSBD won't have effect because the hypervisor assumes it's already active.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.17:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*

History

07 Nov 2023, 03:53

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References
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LTO3U3WYLAZW3KLPKJZ332FYUREXPZMQ/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2023-8334fe0ecb', 'tags': [], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LTO3U3WYLAZW3KLPKJZ332FYUREXPZMQ/ -

27 May 2023, 03:15

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References
  • (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LTO3U3WYLAZW3KLPKJZ332FYUREXPZMQ/ -

26 May 2023, 13:08

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CPE cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.17:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
CWE NVD-CWE-noinfo
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 3.3
First Time Xen xen
Xen
References (MISC) https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-431.txt - (MISC) https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-431.txt - Vendor Advisory

17 May 2023, 01:15

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2023-05-17 01:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 15:01


NVD link : CVE-2022-42336

Mitre link : CVE-2022-42336

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-42336


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Products Affected

xen

  • xen