NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting xen package, versions <4.17.2+76-ge1f9cb16e2-1~deb12u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-XEN-18388927
  • published29 Jul 2026
  • disclosed5 Jan 2024

Introduced: 5 Jan 2024

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest xen to version 4.17.2+76-ge1f9cb16e2-1~deb12u1 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 Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest 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 Base Scores

version 3.1