- Description
- 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.
- Source
- security@xen.org
- NVD status
- Awaiting Analysis
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Secondary
- Base score
- 6.5
- Impact score
- 4
- Exploitability score
- 2
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
- CWE-843
- Hype score
- Not currently trending