CVE-2022-42319
MEDIUMXen >= 4.9.0 - Denial of Service via Xenstore Memory Leak
Title source: llmDescription
Xenstore: Guests can cause Xenstore to not free temporary memory When working on a request of a guest, xenstored might need to allocate quite large amounts of memory temporarily. This memory is freed only after the request has been finished completely. A request is regarded to be finished only after the guest has read the response message of the request from the ring page. Thus a guest not reading the response can cause xenstored to not free the temporary memory. This can result in memory shortages causing Denial of Service (DoS) of xenstored.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-416.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-416.txt
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/01/6
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5272
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZLI2NPNEH7CNJO3VZGQNOI4M4EWLNKPZ/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZVXG7OOOXCX6VIPEMLFDPIPUTFAYWPE/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YTMITQBGC23MSDHUCAPCVGLMVXIBXQTQ/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0003
EPSS Percentile
8.7%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-401
Status
published
Products (5)
debian/debian_linux
11.0
fedoraproject/fedora
35
fedoraproject/fedora
36
fedoraproject/fedora
37
xen/xen
4.9.0
Published
Nov 01, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026