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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: XEN

Published: 2024-01-05T16:36:10.881Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T20:53:21.884Z

Reserved: 2023-10-27T07:55:35.332Z

Link: CVE-2023-46837

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-05T17:15:11.247

Modified: 2024-02-15T03:15:34.683

Link: CVE-2023-46837

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