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GHSA-4rmw-8gh7-w6g3

GitHub Security Advisory

⚠ Unreviewed MODERATE Has CVE

Advisory Details

The fixes for XSA-422 (Branch Type Confusion) and XSA-434 (Speculative
Return Stack Overflow) are not IRQ-safe. It was believed that the
mitigations always operated in contexts with IRQs disabled.

However, the original XSA-254 fix for Meltdown (XPTI) deliberately left
interrupts enabled on two entry paths; one unconditionally, and one
conditionally on whether XPTI was active.

As BTC/SRSO and Meltdown affect different CPU vendors, the mitigations
are not active together by default. Therefore, there is a race
condition whereby a malicious PV guest can bypass BTC/SRSO protections
and launch a BTC/SRSO attack against Xen.

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-4rmw-8gh7-w6g3
Published
January 5, 2024 6:30 PM
Last Modified
January 11, 2024 6:31 PM
CVSS Score
5.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Unknown
Primary Package
Unknown
GitHub Reviewed
✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 10, 2025 6:31 AM

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