CVE-2025-58142: critical vulnerability in Xen
Mutiple vulnerabilities in the Viridian interface
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No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
A vulnerability in Xen's Viridian interface allows a guest system to cause a crash by triggering a NULL pointer dereference when synthetic timer messages are delivered without proper memory page mapping. This can lead to denial of service.
CVE-2025-58142 involves a NULL pointer dereference in the Viridian code when delivering synthetic timer messages, assuming the SIM (Synthetic Interrupt Message) page is mapped without validation. A malicious guest can trigger this condition by manipulating synthetic timer operations, causing Xen to crash and denying service to other VMs. The vulnerability requires guest-level access and affects the hypervisor's stability.
In the same product, most dangerous first.