3.3
LOW
CVE-2023-46837
Arm ARM64 Cache Overflow Vulnerability
Description

Arm provides multiple helpers to clean & invalidate the cache for a given region. This is, for instance, used when allocating guest memory to ensure any writes (such as the ones during scrubbing) have reached memory before handing over the page to a guest. Unfortunately, the arithmetics in the helpers can overflow and would then result to skip the cache cleaning/invalidation. Therefore there is no guarantee when all the writes will reach the memory. This undefined behavior was meant to be addressed by XSA-437, but the approach was not sufficient.

INFO

Published Date :

Jan. 5, 2024, 5:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 8:29 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

1.4

Exploitability Score :

1.8
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2023-46837 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Xen xen

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2023-46837 vulnerability over time.

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  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/JFVKWYQFRUU3CAS53THTUKXEOUDWI42G/
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XLL6SQ6IKFYXLYWITYZCRV5IBRK5G35R/
    Added Reference https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-447.html
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 15, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Xen Project https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/JFVKWYQFRUU3CAS53THTUKXEOUDWI42G/ [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 15, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Xen Project https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XLL6SQ6IKFYXLYWITYZCRV5IBRK5G35R/ [No types assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jan. 11, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
    Changed Reference Type https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-447.html No Types Assigned https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-447.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-119
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:* versions up to (including) 4.16
  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Jan. 05, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Arm provides multiple helpers to clean & invalidate the cache for a given region. This is, for instance, used when allocating guest memory to ensure any writes (such as the ones during scrubbing) have reached memory before handing over the page to a guest. Unfortunately, the arithmetics in the helpers can overflow and would then result to skip the cache cleaning/invalidation. Therefore there is no guarantee when all the writes will reach the memory. This undefined behavior was meant to be addressed by XSA-437, but the approach was not sufficient.
    Added Reference Xen Project https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-447.html [No types assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.04 }} 0.00%

score

0.12002

percentile

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