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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2022-42319

This can result in memory shortages causing Denial of Service (DoS) of xenstored.

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 0.28%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.28%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 3.1
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.28% probability · 21th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-401
Affected
xen/xen · debian/debian linux · fedoraproject/fedora
Source
security@xen.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.