CVE-2022-42321

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    CVE-2022-42321

    Published: 1 Nov 2022Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Xenstore: Guests can crash xenstored via exhausting the stack Xenstored is using recursion for some Xenstore operations (e.g. for deleting a sub-tree of Xenstore nodes). With sufficiently deep nesting levels this can result in stack exhaustion on xenstored, leading to a crash of xenstored.

    References: 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/YTMITQBGC23MSDHUCAPCVGLMVXIBXQTQ/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZVXG7OOOXCX6VIPEMLFDPIPUTFAYWPE/, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07, https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5272, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/01/8, https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-418.txt, http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-418.html

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

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    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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