High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 26, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-42330

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.

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Affected products

Xen/Xen2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.17.0:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:4.17.0:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
- (no CPE)range: consult Xen advisory XSA-425
Xen Project/Xenstorellm-fuzzy
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/xen&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
Range: < 4.17.0_04-1.1

Patches

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References

xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-425.txtnvdVendor Advisory
xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-425.htmlnvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07nvd

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