Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting xen-tools package, versions <4.16.2_08-150400.4.16.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-XENTOOLS-3123325
  • published17 Nov 2022
  • disclosed16 Nov 2022

Introduced: 16 Nov 2022

CVE-2022-42312  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 xen-tools to version 4.16.2_08-150400.4.16.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen-tools package and not the xen-tools package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

CVSS Scores

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