x86/xen: don't do PV iret hypercall through hypercall page
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/xen: don't do PV iret hypercall through hypercall page Instead of jumping to the Xen hypercall page for doing the iret hypercall, directly code the required sequence in xen-asm.S. This is done in preparation of no longer using hypercall page at all, as it has shown to cause problems with speculation mitigations. This is part of XSA-466 / CVE-2024-53241.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/xen: don't do PV iret hypercall through hypercall page Instead of jumping to the Xen hypercall page for doing the iret hypercall, directly code the required sequence in xen-asm.S. This is done in preparation of no longer using hypercall page at all, as it has shown to cause problems with speculation mitigations. This is part of XSA-466 / CVE-2024-53241.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/12/17/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/12/23/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/05/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/05/2
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-466.html
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05df6e6cd9a76b778aee33c3c18c9f3b3566d4a5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82c211ead1ec440dbf81727e17b03b5e3c44b93d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2796dff62d6c6bfc5fbebdf2bee0d5ac0438906
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7b4cfa6213a44fa48714186dfdf125072d036e3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7c3fdad0a474062d566aae3289d490d7e702d30
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa719857f613fed94a79da055b13ca51214c694f
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/53xxx/CVE-2024-53241.json
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53241