Show plain JSON{"containers": {"cna": {"affected": [{"product": "xen", "vendor": "Xen", "versions": [{"lessThan": "4.12", "status": "unknown", "version": "unspecified", "versionType": "custom"}, {"lessThan": "unspecified", "status": "affected", "version": "4.15.x", "versionType": "custom"}, {"lessThan": "unspecified", "status": "unaffected", "version": "next of xen-unstable", "versionType": "custom"}]}, {"product": "xen", "vendor": "Xen", "versions": [{"status": "affected", "version": "4.11.x"}]}, {"product": "xen", "vendor": "Xen", "versions": [{"lessThan": "4.12", "status": "unknown", "version": "unspecified", "versionType": "custom"}, {"lessThan": "unspecified", "status": "affected", "version": "4.12.x", "versionType": "custom"}, {"lessThan": "unspecified", "status": "unaffected", "version": "next of 4.14.x", "versionType": "custom"}]}], "credits": [{"lang": "en", "value": "{'credit_data': {'description': {'description_data': [{'lang': 'eng', 'value': 'This issue was discovered by Julien Grall of Amazon.'}]}}}"}], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "Another race in XENMAPSPACE_grant_table handling Guests are permitted access to certain Xen-owned pages of memory. The majority of such pages remain allocated / associated with a guest for its entire lifetime. Grant table v2 status pages, however, are de-allocated when a guest switches (back) from v2 to v1. Freeing such pages requires that the hypervisor enforce that no parallel request can result in the addition of a mapping of such a page to a guest. That enforcement was missing, allowing guests to retain access to pages that were freed and perhaps re-used for other purposes. 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Freeing such pages requires that the hypervisor enforce that no parallel request can result in the addition of a mapping of such a page to a guest. That enforcement was missing, allowing guests to retain access to pages that were freed and perhaps re-used for other purposes. 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