CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-42309
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-11-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-763
Description
Xenstore: Guests can crash xenstored Due to a bug in the fix of XSA-115 a malicious guest can cause xenstored to use a wrong pointer during node creation in an error path, resulting in a crash of xenstored or a memory corruption in xenstored causing further damage. Entering the error path can be controlled by the guest e.g. by exceeding the quota value of maximum nodes per domain.
Affected configurations
• xen xen
• debian debian linux 11.0
• fedoraproject fedora 35
• fedoraproject fedora 36
• fedoraproject fedora 37
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-763 Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/01/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-414.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YTMITQBGC23MSDHUCAPCVGLMVXIBXQTQ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZVXG7OOOXCX6VIPEMLFDPIPUTFAYWPE/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZLI2NPNEH7CNJO3VZGQNOI4M4EWLNKPZ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5272 Third Party Advisory
- https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-414.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/01/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-414.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YTMITQBGC23MSDHUCAPCVGLMVXIBXQTQ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZVXG7OOOXCX6VIPEMLFDPIPUTFAYWPE/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZLI2NPNEH7CNJO3VZGQNOI4M4EWLNKPZ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5272 Third Party Advisory
- https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-414.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory