For migration as well as to work around kernels unaware of L1TF (see
XSA-273), PV guests may be run in shadow paging mode. Since Xen itself
needs to be mapped when PV guests run, Xen and shadowed PV guests run
directly the respective shadow page tables. For 64-bit PV guests this
means running on the shadow of the guest root page table.
In the course of dealing with shortage of memory in the shadow pool
associated with a domain, shadows of page tables may be torn down. This
tearing down may include the shadow root page table that the CPU in
question is presently running on. While a precaution exists to
supposedly prevent the tearing down of the underlying live page table,
the time window covered by that precaution isn't large enough.
XSA-273), PV guests may be run in shadow paging mode. Since Xen itself
needs to be mapped when PV guests run, Xen and shadowed PV guests run
directly the respective shadow page tables. For 64-bit PV guests this
means running on the shadow of the guest root page table.
In the course of dealing with shortage of memory in the shadow pool
associated with a domain, shadows of page tables may be torn down. This
tearing down may include the shadow root page table that the CPU in
question is presently running on. While a precaution exists to
supposedly prevent the tearing down of the underlying live page table,
the time window covered by that precaution isn't large enough.
Metrics
Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
Source | ID | Title |
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EUVD-2023-38403 | For migration as well as to work around kernels unaware of L1TF (see XSA-273), PV guests may be run in shadow paging mode. Since Xen itself needs to be mapped when PV guests run, Xen and shadowed PV guests run directly the respective shadow page tables. For 64-bit PV guests this means running on the shadow of the guest root page table. In the course of dealing with shortage of memory in the shadow pool associated with a domain, shadows of page tables may be torn down. This tearing down may include the shadow root page table that the CPU in question is presently running on. While a precaution exists to supposedly prevent the tearing down of the underlying live page table, the time window covered by that precaution isn't large enough. |
Fixes
Solution
No solution given by the vendor.
Workaround
Running only HVM or PVH guests will avoid the vulnerability. Running PV guests in the PV shim will also avoid the vulnerability.
References
Link | Providers |
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https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-438.html |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: XEN
Published:
Updated: 2025-06-16T18:28:59.286Z
Reserved: 2023-06-01T10:44:17.065Z
Link: CVE-2023-34322

Updated: 2024-08-02T16:10:06.455Z

Status : Modified
Published: 2024-01-05T17:15:08.447
Modified: 2025-06-16T19:15:22.347
Link: CVE-2023-34322

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