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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-42319: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-42319: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/01/2022
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
04/09/2024

Description

Xenstore: Guests can cause Xenstore to not free temporary memory When working on a request of a guest, xenstored might need to allocate quite large amounts of memory temporarily. This memory is freed only after the request has been finished completely. A request is regarded to be finished only after the guest has read the response message of the request from the ring page. Thus a guest not reading the response can cause xenstored to not free the temporary memory. This can result in memory shortages causing Denial of Service (DoS) of xenstored.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xen

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