Race Condition Affecting xen package, versions [,4.9.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383776
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14317  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xen to version 4.9.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition. A domain cleanup issue was discovered in the C xenstore daemon (aka cxenstored) in Xen through 4.9.x. When shutting down a VM with a stubdomain, a race in cxenstored may cause a double-free. The xenstored daemon may crash, resulting in a DoS of any parts of the system relying on it (including domain creation / destruction, ballooning, device changes, etc.).

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