Bug 2550648 (CVE-2026-79610) - CVE-2026-79610 xen: Xen: Host privilege escalation via stale grant table pointers
Summary: CVE-2026-79610 xen: Xen: Host privilege escalation via stale grant table poin...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-79610
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2559182
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Reported: 2026-10-13 15:52 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-22 17:26 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-13 15:52:18 UTC
XSA-501 was about issues with v1 -> v2 and v2 -> v1 changes racing certain
other grant table operations.  Sadly a v2 -> v1 -> v2 change has yet
another effect which wasn't accounted for: During the first change, status
pages would be freed.  During the second change they would be allocated
again.  Hence across the full pair of change the addresses of the status
pages may change, rendering stale previously calculated pointers into the
status array.


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