cvelist/2022/42xxx/CVE-2022-42321.json

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        "ASSIGNER": "security@xen.org",
        "ID": "CVE-2022-42321",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC"
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                                "product_name": "xen",
                                "version": {
                                    "version_data": [
                                        {
                                            "version_affected": "?",
                                            "version_value": "consult Xen advisory XSA-418"
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            "description": {
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                        "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": {
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            "description": {
                "description_data": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "This issue was discovered by David Vrabel of Amazon."
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
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    "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"
            }
        ]
    },
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            "description": {
                "description_data": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "Running oxenstored instead of xenstored will avoid the vulnerability."
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}