CVE-2023-46842

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...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-46842

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...

CVE-2023-46842

The Xen hypervisor is vulnerable to a crash due to a flaw in hypercall processing for HVM guests that can switch between 64-bit and other modes. The root cause is that internal sanity checking of translated hypercall arguments incorrectly assumes the high halves of registers are always clear. Whe...