CVE-2022-42330

published 2023-01-26

CVE-2022-42330: Guests can cause Xenstore crash via soft reset When a guest issues a "Soft Reset" (e.g. for performing a kexec) the libxl based Xen toolstack will normally…

Priority P3 37 high 7.5 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C N I N A H

Guests can cause Xenstore crash via soft reset When a guest issues a "Soft Reset" (e.g. for performing a kexec) the libxl based Xen toolstack will normally perform a XS_RELEASE Xenstore operation. Due to a bug in xenstored this can result in a crash of xenstored. Any other use of XS_RELEASE will have the same impact.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	xen	< xen 4.17.0+24-g2f8851c37f-2 (bookworm)	xen 4.17.0+24-g2f8851c37f-2 (bookworm)
xen	xen	—	—
xen	xen	>= 0 < 4.17.0+24-g2f8851c37f-2	4.17.0+24-g2f8851c37f-2
xen	xen	>= 0 < 4.17.0+24-g2f8851c37f-2	4.17.0+24-g2f8851c37f-2
xen	xen	>= 0 < 4.17.0+24-g2f8851c37f-2	4.17.0+24-g2f8851c37f-2

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

osv 7.5 HIGH

vendor_debian 7.5 HIGH

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