CVE-2022-42312: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 35 only; version 36 only; version 37 only
• Xen Xen: affected versions not specified

Published 2022-11-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.