| Name | CVE-2022-42321 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-5272-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| xen (PTS) | buster, buster (security) | 4.11.4+107-gef32c7afa2-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 4.14.6-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 4.17.1+2-gb773c48e36-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.17.2+76-ge1f9cb16e2-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| xen | source | buster | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| xen | source | bullseye | 4.14.5+86-g1c354767d5-1 | | DSA-5272-1 | |
| xen | source | (unstable) | 4.16.2+90-g0d39a6d1ae-1 | | | |
Notes
[buster] - xen <end-of-life> (DSA 4677-1)
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-418.html