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xen — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2022-42319

Xenstore: Guests can cause Xenstore to not free temporary memory When working on a request of a guest, xenstored might need to allocate quite large amounts of memory temporarily. This memory is freed only after the request has been finished completely. A request is regarded to be finished only after the guest has read the response message of the request from the ring page. Thus a guest not reading the response can cause xenstored to not free the temporary memory. This can result in memory shortages causing Denial of Service (DoS) of xenstored.

Products
xen
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
4.16.2+90-g0d39a6d1ae-1
CVEs
CVE-2022-42319
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 15:22 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-42319

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Nov 2022, 13:15 UTC

Xenstore: Guests can cause Xenstore to not free temporary memory When working on a request of a guest, xenstored might need to allocate quite large amounts of memory temporarily. This memory is freed only after the request has been finished completely. A request is regarded to be finished only after the guest has read the response message of the request from the ring page. Thus a guest not reading the response can cause xenstored to not free the temporary memory. This can result in memory shortages causing Denial of Service (DoS) of xenstored.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-42319

xen

Fixed versions: 4.16.2+90-g0d39a6d1ae-1

xen

Fixed versions: 4.16.2+90-g0d39a6d1ae-1

xen

Fixed versions: 4.16.2+90-g0d39a6d1ae-1

Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-15T08:02:54.731040841Z",
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