Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 5, 2024· Updated Nov 4, 2025
xenstored: A transaction conflict can crash C Xenstored
CVE-2023-34323
Description
When a transaction is committed, C Xenstored will first check the quota is correct before attempting to commit any nodes. It would be possible that accounting is temporarily negative if a node has been removed outside of the transaction.
Unfortunately, some versions of C Xenstored are assuming that the quota cannot be negative and are using assert() to confirm it. This will lead to C Xenstored crash when tools are built without -DNDEBUG (this is the default).
Affected products
29- osv-coords28 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/xen&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/xen&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/opensuse/xen&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.1pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.2pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.2
< 4.16.5_06-150400.4.37.1+ 27 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.16.5_06-150400.4.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17.2_06-150500.3.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.18.0_02-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.14.6_06-150300.3.57.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.4_40-150100.3.95.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.13.5_06-150200.3.80.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.14.6_06-150300.3.57.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.14.6_06-150300.3.57.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.14.6_06-150300.3.57.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.14.6_06-150300.3.57.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.16.5_06-150400.4.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.16.5_06-150400.4.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17.2_06-150500.3.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.16.5_06-150400.4.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17.2_06-150500.3.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.16.5_06-150400.4.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.17.2_06-150500.3.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.4_40-3.97.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.4_40-150100.3.95.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.13.5_06-150200.3.80.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.14.6_06-150300.3.57.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.4_40-3.97.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.4_40-150100.3.95.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.13.5_06-150200.3.80.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.14.6_06-150300.3.57.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.4_40-3.97.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.14.6_06-150300.3.57.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.14.6_06-150300.3.57.1
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
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