CVE-2023-34323 (GCVE-0-2023-34323)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-05 16:30 – Updated: 2025-11-04 19:16
VLAI?
Title
xenstored: A transaction conflict can crash C Xenstored
Summary
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).
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
XEN
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Xen Xen Unknown: consult Xen advisory XSA-440
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Credits
This issue was discovered by Stanislav Uschakow and Julien Grall, all from Amazon.
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