CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-34324

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2024-01-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-01-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
4.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

Closing of an event channel in the Linux kernel can result in a deadlock. This happens when the close is being performed in parallel to an unrelated Xen console action and the handling of a Xen console interrupt in an unprivileged guest. The closing of an event channel is e.g. triggered by removal of a paravirtual device on the other side. As this action will cause console messages to be issued on the other side quite often, the chance of triggering the deadlock is not neglectable. Note that 32-bit Arm-guests are not affected, as the 32-bit Linux kernel on Arm doesn't use queued-RW-locks, which are required to trigger the issue (on Arm32 a waiting writer doesn't block further readers to get the lock).

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 5.10) • xen xen

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References