CVE-2026-23557 Affecting xen-tools package, versions <4.20.3_04-150700.3.36.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-XENTOOLS-16770954
  • published20 May 2026
  • disclosed19 May 2026

Introduced: 19 May 2026

CVE-2026-23557  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 xen-tools to version 4.20.3_04-150700.3.36.1 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 can cause xenstored to crash by issuing a XS_RESET_WATCHES command within a transaction due to an assert() triggering.

In case xenstored was built with NDEBUG #defined nothing bad will happen, as assert() is doing nothing in this case. Note that the default is not to define NDEBUG for xenstored builds even in release builds of Xen.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1