Unlike 32-bit PV guests, HVM guests may switch freely between 64-bit and other modes. This in particular means that they may set registers used to pass 32-bit-mode hypercall arguments to values outside of the range 32-bit code would be able to set them to. When processing of hypercalls takes a considerable amount of time, the hypervisor may choose to invoke a hypercall continuation. Doing so involves putting (perhaps updated) hypercall arguments in respective registers. For guests not running in 64-bit mode this further involves a certain amount of translation of the values. Unfortunately internal sanity checking of these translated values assumes high halves of registers to always be clear when invoking a hypercall. When this is found not to be the case, it triggers a consistency check in the hypervisor and causes a crash.
History

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-843
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: XEN

Published: 2024-05-16T13:39:26.183Z

Updated: 2024-12-04T16:57:56.599Z

Reserved: 2023-10-27T07:55:35.333Z

Link: CVE-2023-46842

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T20:53:21.979Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-16T14:15:08.317

Modified: 2024-12-04T17:15:11.343

Link: CVE-2023-46842

cve-icon Redhat

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