NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting xen-tools package, versions <4.16.5_06-150400.4.37.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-XENTOOLS-5962385
  • published12 Oct 2023
  • disclosed12 Oct 2023

Introduced: 12 Oct 2023

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 xen-tools to version 4.16.5_06-150400.4.37.1 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.

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