CVE-2022-42309

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.

References

https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-414.txt

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5272

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZLI2NPNEH7CNJO3VZGQNOI4M4EWLNKPZ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZVXG7OOOXCX6VIPEMLFDPIPUTFAYWPE/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YTMITQBGC23MSDHUCAPCVGLMVXIBXQTQ/

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-414.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/01/4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3