CVE-2022-42316Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in XEN

Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 75.41%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedNov 1

Description

Xenstore: guests can let run xenstored out of memory T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] Malicious guests can cause xenstored to allocate vast amounts of memory, eventually resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) of xenstored. There are multiple ways how guests can cause large memory allocations in xenstored: - - by issuing new requests to xenstored without reading the responses, causing the responses to

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.0 | Impact: 4.0

Affected Packages2 packages

debiandebian/xen< xen 4.16.2+90-g0d39a6d1ae-1 (bookworm)
Debianxen/xen< 4.14.5+86-g1c354767d5-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0, Fedora 35, 36, 37

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-xxpf-x8mq-p6v4: Xenstore: guests can let run xenstored out of memory T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabil2022-11-01
OSV
CVE-2022-42316: Xenstore: guests can let run xenstored out of memory T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabil2022-11-01

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2022-42316: xen - Xenstore: guests can let run xenstored out of memory T[his CNA information recor...2022