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CVE-2022-33748 — lock order inversion in transitive grant copy handling As part of XSA-226 a miss

lock order inversion in transitive grant copy handling As part of XSA-226 a missing cleanup call was inserted on an error handling path. While doing so, locking requirements were not paid attention to. As a result two cooperating guests granting each other transitive grants can c

CVSS
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EPSS
0.03% (top 90.30%)
CWE
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Published
2022-10-11T00:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-03T08:09:22.688Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

lock order inversion in transitive grant copy handling As part of XSA-226 a missing cleanup call was inserted on an error handling path. While doing so, locking requirements were not paid attention to. As a result two cooperating guests granting each other transitive grants can cause locks to be acquired nested within one another, but in respectively opposite order. With suitable timing between…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Xenxenconsult Xen advisory XSA-411

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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