cvelist/2022/42xxx/CVE-2022-42317.json

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    "CVE_data_meta": {
        "ASSIGNER": "security@xen.org",
        "ID": "CVE-2022-42317",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC"
    },
    "affects": {
        "vendor": {
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                    "product": {
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                            {
                                "product_name": "xen",
                                "version": {
                                    "version_data": [
                                        {
                                            "version_affected": "?",
                                            "version_value": "consult Xen advisory XSA-326"
                                        }
                                    ]
                                }
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    "vendor_name": "Xen"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    "configuration": {
        "configuration_data": {
            "description": {
                "description_data": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "All Xen versions are vulnerable.\n\nBoth Xenstore implementations (C and Ocaml) are vulnerable."
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    },
    "credit": {
        "credit_data": {
            "description": {
                "description_data": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "This issue was discovered by Julien Grall of Amazon."
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    },
    "data_format": "MITRE",
    "data_type": "CVE",
    "data_version": "4.0",
    "description": {
        "description_data": [
            {
                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "Xenstore: guests can let run xenstored out of memory T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] Malicious guests can cause xenstored to allocate vast amounts of memory, eventually resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) of xenstored. There are multiple ways how guests can cause large memory allocations in xenstored: - - by issuing new requests to xenstored without reading the responses, causing the responses to be buffered in memory - - by causing large number of watch events to be generated via setting up multiple xenstore watches and then e.g. deleting many xenstore nodes below the watched path - - by creating as many nodes as allowed with the maximum allowed size and path length in as many transactions as possible - - by accessing many nodes inside a transaction"
            }
        ]
    },
    "impact": {
        "impact_data": {
            "description": {
                "description_data": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "Unprivileged guests can cause a DoS of xenstored, resulting in the\ninability to create new guests or modify the configuration of running\nguests."
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    },
    "problemtype": {
        "problemtype_data": [
            {
                "description": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "unknown"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "references": {
        "reference_data": [
            {
                "url": "https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-326.txt",
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "name": "https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-326.txt"
            },
            {
                "refsource": "CONFIRM",
                "name": "http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-326.html",
                "url": "http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-326.html"
            },
            {
                "refsource": "DEBIAN",
                "name": "DSA-5272",
                "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5272"
            },
            {
                "refsource": "FEDORA",
                "name": "FEDORA-2022-07438e12df",
                "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZLI2NPNEH7CNJO3VZGQNOI4M4EWLNKPZ/"
            },
            {
                "refsource": "FEDORA",
                "name": "FEDORA-2022-99af00f60e",
                "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZVXG7OOOXCX6VIPEMLFDPIPUTFAYWPE/"
            },
            {
                "refsource": "FEDORA",
                "name": "FEDORA-2022-9f51d13fa3",
                "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YTMITQBGC23MSDHUCAPCVGLMVXIBXQTQ/"
            }
        ]
    },
    "workaround": {
        "workaround_data": {
            "description": {
                "description_data": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "There is no mitigation available."
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}