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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-42309: Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-42309: Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/01/2022
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

References

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