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CVE-2024-53241

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2024-12-24 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-noinfo

References