CVE-2023-46841: xen — Fix

Description

Recent x86 CPUs offer functionality named Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET). A sub-feature of this are Shadow Stacks (CET-SS). CET-SS is a hardware feature designed to protect against Return Oriented Programming attacks. When enabled, traditional stacks holding both data and return addresses are accompanied by so called "shadow stacks", holding little more than return addresses. Shadow stacks aren't writable by normal instructions, and upon function returns their contents are used to check for possible manipulation of a return address coming from the traditional stack. In particular certain memory accesses need intercepting by Xen. In various cases the necessary emulation involves kind of replaying of the instruction. Such replaying typically involves filling and then invoking of a stub. Such a replayed instruction may raise an exceptions, which is expected and dealt with accordingly. Unfortunately the interaction of both of the above wasn't right: Recovery involves removal of a call frame from the (traditional) stack. The counterpart of this operation for the shadow stack was missing.

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CVSS v3.1 Score

6.5

MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
fedoraproject	fedora	All
xen	xen	>= 4.14.0

References

Advisories & Patches

https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-451.html http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-451.html https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-451.html

Other References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZON4TLXG7TG4A2XZG563JMVTGQW4SF3A/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HES2IJXZY3H7HBPP4NVSVYYNGW254DMI/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZON4TLXG7TG4A2XZG563JMVTGQW4SF3A/

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2023-46841? +

Recent x86 CPUs offer functionality named Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET). A sub-feature of this are Shadow Stacks (CET-SS). CET-SS is a hardware feature designed to protect against Return Oriented Programming attacks. When enabled, traditional stacks holding both data and return addresses are accompanied by so called "shadow stacks", holding little more than return addresses. Shadow stacks aren't writable by normal instructions, and upon function returns their contents are used to check for possible manipulation of a return address coming from the traditional stack. In particular certain memory accesses need intercepting by Xen. In various cases the necessary emulation involves kind of replaying of the instruction. Such replaying typically involves filling and then invoking of a stub. Such a replayed instruction may raise an exceptions, which is expected and dealt with accordingly. Unfortunately the interaction of both of the above wasn't right: Recovery involves removal of a call frame from the (traditional) stack. The counterpart of this operation for the shadow stack was missing. It has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (MEDIUM).

How severe is CVE-2023-46841? +

CVE-2023-46841 has a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.5 out of 10, rated MEDIUM. This is a medium-severity vulnerability that should be remediated as part of regular maintenance.

What products are affected by CVE-2023-46841? +

CVE-2023-46841 affects products from fedoraproject, xen, specifically: fedora, xen. Check the affected products table above for specific version ranges.

How do I check if I'm vulnerable to CVE-2023-46841? +

You can use Secably's free Website Scanner to check your website for known vulnerabilities. For infrastructure scanning, use the Port Scanner to identify exposed services that may be affected. Check the vendor advisories linked above for specific patch and version information.

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