CVE-2022-23035
low-risk
Published 2022-01-25
Insufficient cleanup of passed-through device IRQs The management of IRQs associated with physical devices exposed to x86 HVM guests involves an iterative operation in particular when cleaning up after the guest's use of the device. In the case where an interrupt is not quiescent yet at the time this cleanup gets invoked, the cleanup attempt may be scheduled to be retried. When multiple interrupts are involved, this scheduling of a retry may get erroneously skipped. At the same time pointers may get cleared (resulting in a de-reference of NULL) and freed (resulting in a use-after-free), while other code would continue to assume them to be valid.
Do I need to act?
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0.11% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
4
CVSS 4.6/10
Medium
PHYSICAL
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (3)
Affected Vendors
References (10)
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-23
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5117
Vendor Advisory
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-395.txt
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-23
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5117
Vendor Advisory
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-395.txt
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/ 100
low-risk
Severity
16/34 · Moderate
Exploitability
0/34 · Minimal
Exposure
9/34 · Low