ghsa-w2vx-fp9q-36ph
Vulnerability from github
Published
2024-12-24 12:30
Modified
2025-11-03 21:31
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/xen: don't do PV iret hypercall through hypercall page

Instead of jumping to the Xen hypercall page for doing the iret hypercall, directly code the required sequence in xen-asm.S.

This is done in preparation of no longer using hypercall page at all, as it has shown to cause problems with speculation mitigations.

This is part of XSA-466 / CVE-2024-53241.

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  "modified": "2025-11-03T21:31:45Z",
  "published": "2024-12-24T12:30:42Z",
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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