CVE-2022-42321

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Xenstore: Guests can crash xenstored via exhausting the stack Xenstored is using recursion for some Xenstore operations (e.g. for deleting a sub-tree of Xenstore nodes). With sufficiently deep nesting levels this can result in stack exhaustion on xenstored, leading to a crash of xenstored.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-674

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Nov 1, 2022
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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