CVE-2022-42335

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202402-07

Severity Score

7.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

x86 shadow paging arbitrary pointer dereference In environments where host assisted address translation is necessary but Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP) is unavailable, Xen will run guests in so called shadow mode. Due to too lax a check in one of the hypervisor routines used for shadow page handling it is possible for a guest with a PCI device passed through to cause the hypervisor to access an arbitrary pointer partially under guest control.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Xen, the worst of which can lead to arbitrary code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 4.16.6_pre1 are affected.

*Credits: This issue was discovered by Roger Pau Monné of XenServer.

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

Complete

Integrity

Complete

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2022-10-03 CVE Reserved
2023-04-25 CVE Published
2024-08-03 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

CAPEC

References (5)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/25/1	Mailing List

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-430.html	2024-02-04
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-430.txt	2024-02-04

URL	Date	SRC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PSPFWSY6UOPGMADQGOGN2PAAS5LJRPTG	2024-02-04
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07	2024-02-04

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Xen Search vendor "Xen"		Xen Search vendor "Xen" for product "Xen"				4.17.0 Search vendor "Xen" for product "Xen" and version "4.17.0"		x86		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				38 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "38"		-		Affected