CVE-2024-53241 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2024-53241

x86/xen: don't do PV iret hypercall through hypercall page

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
cdacc1278b12d929f9a053c245ff3d16eb7af9f8, 2.6.27, 0, 5.10.232, 5.15.175, 6.1.121, 6.6.67, 6.12.6, 6.13

Timeline

Official Publish: December 24th, 2024
Last Modified: May 11th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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