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DEBIAN-CVE-2022-42316

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-42316 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM

Xenstore: guests can let run xenstored out of memory T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] Malicious guests can cause xenstored to allocate vast amounts of memory, eventually resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) of xenstored. There are multiple ways how guests can cause large memory allocations in xenstored: - - by issuing new requests to xenstored without reading the responses, causing the responses to be buffered in memory - - by causing large number of watch events to be generated via setting up multiple xenstore watches and then e.g. deleting many xenstore nodes below the watched path - - by creating as many nodes as allowed with the maximum allowed size and path length in as many transactions as possible - - by accessing many nodes inside a transaction

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11xen*, 4.14.4+74-gd7b22226b5-1, 4.14.5+24-g87d90d511c-1
Debian:13xen0, 0, 0
Debian:14xen0, 0, 0
Debian:12xen0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Nov 1, 2022 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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