Bug 2508149 - CVE-2026-62426 xen: Xen: Denial of Service in sysctl operations due to unfair lock acquisition. [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-62426 xen: Xen: Denial of Service in sysctl operations due to unfair...
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xen
Version: 45
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Michael Young
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-62426
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Reported: 2026-07-28 17:59 UTC by Ganesh
Modified: 2026-08-17 15:39 UTC (History)
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Description Ganesh 2026-07-28 17:59:08 UTC
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[This CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the
text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.]

To manage the system, sysctl and platform operations are used by the
control domain or a possible Xenstore domain.  Some of these operations
may not be executed in parallel, so a system-wide lock each is used.
The way those locks are acquired is, however, not providing any fairness.
Furthermore, with XSM/Flask in use, the lock acquire will, for some
operations, occur ahead of any permission checking.

The sysctl issue is CVE-2026-62426.

The platform-op issue is CVE-2026-62427.

Comment 1 Aoife Moloney 2026-08-17 15:39:54 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 45 development cycle.
Changing version to 45.


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