he current setup of the quarantine page tables assumes that the quarantine domain (dom_io) has been initialized with an address width of DEFAULT_DOMAIN_ADDRESS_WIDTH (48) and hence 4 page table levels. However dom_io being a PV domain gets the AMD-Vi IOMMU page tables levels based on the maximum (hot pluggable) RAM address, and hence on systems with no RAM above the 512GB mark only 3 page-table levels are configured in the IOMMU. On systems without RAM above the 512GB boundary amd_iommu_quarantine_init() will setup page tables for the scratch page with 4 levels, while the IOMMU will be configured to use 3 levels only, resulting in the last page table directory (PDE) effectively becoming a page table entry (PTE), and hence a device in quarantine mode gaining write access to the page destined to be a PDE. Due to this page table level mismatch, the sink page the device gets read/write access to is no longer cleared between device assignment, possibly leading to data leaks.
| Link | Resource |
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| https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-445.html | Patch Vendor Advisory |
| http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-445.html | |
| https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-445.html | Patch Vendor Advisory |
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17 Jun 2025, 16:15
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| CWE | CWE-787 |
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| References | () https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-445.html - Patch, Vendor Advisory |
Published : 2024-01-05 17:15
Updated : 2025-11-04 20:17
NVD link : CVE-2023-46835
Mitre link : CVE-2023-46835
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-46835
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