Vulnerability CVE-2022-42330


Published: 2023-01-26

Description:
Guests can cause Xenstore crash via soft reset When a guest issues a "Soft Reset" (e.g. for performing a kexec) the libxl based Xen toolstack will normally perform a XS_RELEASE Xenstore operation. Due to a bug in xenstored this can result in a crash of xenstored. Any other use of XS_RELEASE will have the same impact.

 References:
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-425.txt

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