CVE-2022-42309

Publication date 1 November 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Xenstore: Guests can crash xenstored Due to a bug in the fix of XSA-115 a malicious guest can cause xenstored to use a wrong pointer during node creation in an error path, resulting in a crash of xenstored or a memory corruption in xenstored causing further damage. Entering the error path can be controlled by the guest e.g. by exceeding the quota value of maximum nodes per domain.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
xen	24.10 oracular	Needs evaluation
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

mdeslaur

hypervisor packages are in universe. For issues in the hypervisor, add appropriate tags to each section, ex: Tags_xen: universe-binary

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H