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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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: XEN
Published: 2024-01-05T16:36:10.881Z
Updated: 2024-01-05T16:36:10.881Z
Reserved: 2023-10-27T07:55:35.332Z
Link: CVE-2023-46837
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2024-01-05T17:15:11.247
Modified: 2024-02-15T03:15:34.683
Link: CVE-2023-46837
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CWE