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.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade xen | Aug 22, 2024 | Jan 5, 2024 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade xen | Jul 30, 2024 | Jan 5, 2024 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade app-emulation/xen. | Sep 23, 2024 | Jan 5, 2024 |
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