xen — security advisory
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
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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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 324575,
"published_at": "2022-11-01T13:15:11.763+00:00"
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