{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "security@xen.org", "ID": "CVE-2022-42321", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "xen", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_affected": "?", "version_value": "consult Xen advisory XSA-418" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "Xen" } ] } }, "configuration": { "configuration_data": { "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "All versions of Xen are affected.\n\nOnly systems running the C variant of Xenstore (xenstored or xenstore-\nstubdom) are vulnerable.\n\nSystems using the Ocaml variant of Xenstore (oxenstored) are not vulnerable." } ] } } }, "credit": { "credit_data": { "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "This issue was discovered by David Vrabel of Amazon." } ] } } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "impact": { "impact_data": { "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "A malicious guest creating very deep nesting levels of Xenstore nodes\nmight be able to crash xenstored, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS)\nof Xenstore.\n\nThis will inhibit creation of new guests or changing the configuration of\nalready running guests." } ] } } }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "unknown" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "url": "https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-418.txt", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-418.txt" }, { "refsource": "CONFIRM", "name": "http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-418.html", "url": "http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-418.html" }, { "refsource": "MLIST", "name": "[oss-security] 20221101 Xen Security Advisory 418 v2 (CVE-2022-42321) - Xenstore: Guests can crash xenstored via exhausting the stack", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/01/8" }, { "refsource": "DEBIAN", "name": "DSA-5272", "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5272" } ] }, "workaround": { "workaround_data": { "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "Running oxenstored instead of xenstored will avoid the vulnerability." } ] } } } }