🛡️ CVE-2022-42309
🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-763 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Xenstore: Guests can crash xenstored Due to a bug in the fix of XSA-115 a malicious guest can cause xenstored to use a wrong pointer during node creation in an error path, resulting in a crash of xenstored or a memory corruption in xenstored causing further damage. Entering the error path can be controlled by the guest e.g. by exceeding the quota value of maximum nodes per domain.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-763
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-11-01
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux
fedora
xen

References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/01/4
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/01/4

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