CVE-2022-42319 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2022-42319

Xenstore: Guests can cause Xenstore to not free temporary memory...

Vulnerability Description

Xenstore: Guests can cause Xenstore to not free temporary memory When working on a request of a guest, xenstored might need to allocate quite large amounts of memory temporarily. This memory is freed only after the request has been finished completely. A request is regarded to be finished only after the guest has read the response message of the request from the ring page. Thus a guest not reading the response can cause xenstored to not free the temporary memory. This can result in memory shortages causing Denial of Service (DoS) of xenstored.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • {'credit_data': {'description': {'description_data': [{'lang': 'eng', 'value': 'This issue was discovered by Julien Grall of Amazon.'}]}}}

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

xen
Vulnerable Versions:
consult Xen advisory XSA-416

Timeline

Official Publish: November 1st, 2022
Last Modified: August 3rd, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.