CVE-2023-46837 (GCVE-0-2023-46837)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-05 16:36
Modified
2025-11-04 18:18
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
References
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