NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting xen package, versions <4.17.2+55-g0b56bed864-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-XEN-5954757
  • published11 Oct 2023
  • disclosed5 Jan 2024

Introduced: 11 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-34323  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 xen to version 4.17.2+55-g0b56bed864-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen package and not the xen package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

When a transaction is committed, C Xenstored will first check the quota is correct before attempting to commit any nodes. It would be possible that accounting is temporarily negative if a node has been removed outside of the transaction.

Unfortunately, some versions of C Xenstored are assuming that the quota cannot be negative and are using assert() to confirm it. This will lead to C Xenstored crash when tools are built without -DNDEBUG (this is the default).

CVSS Scores

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