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ALPINE-CVE-2023-46835

ALPINE-CVE-2023-46835 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

The 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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Alpine:v3.16xen4.4.1-r5, 4.9.1-r3, 4.9.1-r2
Alpine:v3.23xen4.3.0-r1, 4.3.0-r0, 4.2.2-r9
Alpine:v3.18xen4.16.1-r1, 4.9.1-r3, 4.9.1-r2
Alpine:v3.22xen4.9.0-r7, 0, 4.0.1-r0
Alpine:v3.20xen4.12.1-r2, 4.15.0-r4, 4.15.0-r3
Alpine:v3.17xen4.14.1-r0, 4.14.1-r1, 4.14.1-r2
Alpine:v3.19xen4.2.2-r7, 4.9.1-r3, 4.9.1-r2
Alpine:v3.21xen4.17.1-r4, 4.17.2-r0, 4.17.2-r1
Alpine:v3.15xen4.3.0-r4, 4.9.1-r3, 4.9.1-r2

Timeline

  • Jan 5, 2024 CVE Published
  • Dec 3, 2025 CVE Updated
  • Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
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