CVE-2024-31142 (GCVE-0-2024-31142)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-16 13:39 – Updated: 2025-11-04 18:30
VLAI
Title
x86: Incorrect logic for BTC/SRSO mitigations
Summary
Because of a logical error in XSA-407 (Branch Type Confusion), the mitigation is not applied properly when it is intended to be used. XSA-434 (Speculative Return Stack Overflow) uses the same infrastructure, so is equally impacted. For more details, see: https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-407.html https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-434.html
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure
Assigner
XEN
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Xen Xen Unknown: consult Xen advisory XSA-455
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Date Public
2024-04-09 16:29
Credits
This issue was discovered by Andrew Cooper of XenServer.
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