CVE-2022-42318
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.5 Medium
- Published
- Nov 1, 2022
- Updated
- May 5, 2025
- Reserved
- Oct 3, 2022
Description
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
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
xenXen |
|
References
- https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-326.txt
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-326.html
- DSA-5272vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2022-07438e12dfvendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2022-99af00f60evendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2022-9f51d13fa3vendor-advisory
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