CVE-2024-53241
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2024-12-24 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
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.
See more information about CVE-2024-53241 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 5.7 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| Version: | 3.1 |
| Attack Vector: | Adjacent_Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | Low |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | High |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | None |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel) | ELSA-2025-3893 | 2025-04-15 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20095 | 2025-02-09 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20095 | 2025-02-09 |
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