CVE-2022-42311

MEDIUM

Xen - Denial of Service via Xenstore Memory Allocation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 26.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (5)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
fedoraproject/fedora 35
fedoraproject/fedora 36
fedoraproject/fedora 37
xen/xen
Published Nov 01, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026