Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-42310 - Incomplete Cleanup vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Xenstore: Guests can create orphaned Xenstore nodes By creating multiple nodes inside a transaction resulting in an error, a malicious guest can create orphaned nodes in the Xenstore data base, as the cleanup after the error will not remove all nodes already created. When the transaction is committed after this situation, nodes without a valid parent can be made permanent in the data base.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 81 | |
| OS | 1 | |
| OS | 3 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-415.txt
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-415.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/01/5
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5272
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZLI2NPNEH7CNJO3VZGQNOI4M4EWLNKPZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZVXG7OOOXCX6VIPEMLFDPIPUTFAYWPE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YTMITQBGC23MSDHUCAPCVGLMVXIBXQTQ/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-07