CVE-2026-23555 Affecting xen-tools package, versions <4.20.2_08-150700.3.28.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-XENTOOLS-15870797
  • published1 Apr 2026
  • disclosed26 Mar 2026

Introduced: 26 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-23555  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 xen-tools to version 4.20.2_08-150700.3.28.1 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:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Any guest issuing a Xenstore command accessing a node using the (illegal) node path "/local/domain/", will crash xenstored due to a clobbered error indicator in xenstored when verifying the node path.

Note that the crash is forced via a failing assert() statement in xenstored. In case xenstored is being built with NDEBUG #defined, an unprivileged guest trying to access the node path "/local/domain/" will result in it no longer being serviced by xenstored, other guests (including dom0) will still be serviced, but xenstored will use up all cpu time it can get.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1