CVE-2023-34327: medium-severity vulnerability in Xen
x86/AMD: Debug Mask handling
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.5epss 0.2%
[This CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the
text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.]
AMD CPUs since ~2014 have extensions to normal x86 debugging functionality.
Xen supports guests using these extensions.
Unfortunately there are errors in Xen's handling of the guest state, leading
to denials of service.
1) CVE-2023-34327 - An HVM vCPU can end up operating in the context of
a previous vCPUs debug mask state.
2) CVE-2023-34328 - A PV vCPU can place a breakpoint over the live GDT.
This allows the PV vCPU to exploit XSA-156 / CVE-2015-8104 and lock
up the CPU entirely.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Xen · XenRelated CVEs — Xen
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2024-31142HIGHx86: Incorrect logic for BTC/SRSO mitigationsEPSS 17.4%CVE-2024-2201MEDIUMCVE-2024-2201EPSS 8.8%CVE-2023-46842MEDIUMx86 HVM hypercalls may trigger Xen bug checkEPSS 8.5%CVE-2024-2193MEDIUMSpeculative Race Condition impacts modern CPU architectures that support speculative execution, also known as GhostRace.EPSS 1.3%CVE-2025-1713HIGHdeadlock potential with VT-d and legacy PCI device pass-throughEPSS 0.9%CVE-2023-46839MEDIUMpci: phantom functions assigned to incorrect contextsEPSS 0.8%