CVE-2024-53241

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/xen: don't do PV iret hypercall through hypercall page Instead of jumping to the Xen hypercall page for doing the iret hypercall, directly code the required sequence in xen-asm.S. This is done in preparation of no longer using hypercall page at all, as it has shown to cause problems with speculation mitigations. This is part of XSA-466 / CVE-2024-53241.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2024-12-24

Last modified

2026-05-11

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05df6e6cd9a76b778aee33c3c18c9f3b3566d4a5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82c211ead1ec440dbf81727e17b03b5e3c44b93d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2796dff62d6c6bfc5fbebdf2bee0d5ac0438906
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7b4cfa6213a44fa48714186dfdf125072d036e3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7c3fdad0a474062d566aae3289d490d7e702d30
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa719857f613fed94a79da055b13ca51214c694f
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/12/17/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/12/23/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/05/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/05/2
• http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-466.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html