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CVE-2023-34324

4.9 mediumEPSS 1.2%

Medium (4.9). EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Closing of an event channel in the Linux kernel can result in a deadlock. This happens when the close is being performed in parallel to an unrelated Xen console action and the handling of a Xen console interrupt in an unprivileged guest. The closing of an event channel is e.g. triggered by removal of a paravirtual device on the other side. As this action will cause console messages to be issued on the other side quite often, the chance of triggering the deadlock is not neglectable. Note that 32-bit Arm-guests are not affected, as the 32-bit Linux kernel on Arm doesn't use queued-RW-locks, which are required to trigger the issue (on Arm32 a waiting writer doesn't block further readers to get the lock).

Severity

CVSS 3.1

4.9 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 66% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-400
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

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