CVE-2022-42330

Published on: Not Yet Published

Last Modified on: 02/06/2023 04:26:00 PM UTC

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Certain versions of Xen from Xen contain the following vulnerability:

Guests can cause Xenstore crash via soft reset When a guest issues a "Soft Reset" (e.g. for performing a kexec) the libxl based Xen toolstack will normally perform a XS_RELEASE Xenstore operation. Due to a bug in xenstored this can result in a crash of xenstored. Any other use of XS_RELEASE will have the same impact.

  • CVE-2022-42330 has been assigned by URL Logo [email protected] to track the vulnerability - currently rated as HIGH severity.
  • Affected Vendor/Software: URL Logo Xen - xen version ? consult Xen advisory XSA-425

CVSS3 Score: 7.5 - HIGH

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NETWORK LOW NONE NONE
Scope Confidentiality
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UNCHANGED NONE NONE HIGH

CVE References

Description Tags Link
xenbits.xenproject.org
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URL Logo MISC xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-425.txt

Exploit/POC from Github

Guests can cause Xenstore crash via soft reset When a guest issues a "Soft Reset" (e.g. for performing a kexec) the l…

Known Affected Configurations (CPE V2.3)

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language
Operating
System
XenXen4.17.0AllAllAll
  • cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.17.0:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*:

Social Mentions

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