CVE-2023-34323
MEDIUMXen < 4.17.0 - Denial of Service via Quota Assertion Failure
Title source: llmDescription
When a transaction is committed, C Xenstored will first check the quota is correct before attempting to commit any nodes. It would be possible that accounting is temporarily negative if a node has been removed outside of the transaction. Unfortunately, some versions of C Xenstored are assuming that the quota cannot be negative and are using assert() to confirm it. This will lead to C Xenstored crash when tools are built without -DNDEBUG (this is the default).
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Various Sources
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-440.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-440.html
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0009
EPSS Percentile
24.8%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-476
Status
published
Products (1)
xen/xen
< 4.17.0
Published
Jan 05, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026