CVE-2022-42319

MEDIUM

Xen - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 6.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-401
Status published

Affected Products (5)

xen/xen
debian/debian_linux
fedoraproject/fedora
fedoraproject/fedora
fedoraproject/fedora

Timeline

Published Nov 01, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026