CVE-2022-42318

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xenstore (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the uncontrolled allocation of resources in Xenstore, which can lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) of xenstored. Malicious guests can cause xenstored to allocate large amounts of memory by issuing new requests without reading responses, causing responses to be buffered in memory, generating a large number of watch events, creating many nodes with maximum size and path length, or accessing many nodes inside a transaction.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.