CVE-2022-23035

MEDIUM
4.6
CVSS Score
Published: January 25, 2022 at 01:46 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:29 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraXen

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Severity
MEDIUM4.6
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Xen· Xenwordpress-plugin
95%
v ≥ 4.6.0
Vendor states this is fixed in consult Xen advisory XSA-395 (unknown)

References (5)

CVSS

Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-459

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