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High · 7.1 CVE-2026-23555 EUVD-2026-14383GHSA-hv7f-mhvh-6mf6

Xenstored DoS by unprivileged domain

Published Mar 23, 2026 · Updated Mar 23, 2026 · Assigned by XEN

Description

Any guest issuing a Xenstore command accessing a node using the
(illegal) node path "/local/domain/", will crash xenstored due to a
clobbered error indicator in xenstored when verifying the node path.

Note that the crash is forced via a failing assert() statement in
xenstored. In case xenstored is being built with NDEBUG #defined,
an unprivileged guest trying to access the node path "/local/domain/"
will result in it no longer being serviced by xenstored, other guests
(including dom0) will still be serviced, but xenstored will use up
all cpu time it can get.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Xen Xen — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 xen 4.20.3+127-gc42374a105-1 —
Debian 13 xen 4.20.3+127-gc42374a105-0+deb13u1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 xen No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS xen No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 xen No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS xen No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS xen No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS xen No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS xen No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS xen No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 xen 4.20.2_08-150700.3.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:1093-1
SLES 15 SP6 xen 4.18.5_12-150600.3.40.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0908-1
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 15 SP6 xen 4.18.5_12-150600.3.40.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0908-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed xen 4.21.1_02-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10457-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 xen 4.18.5_12-150600.3.40.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0908-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 xen 4.21.0-r3 —
Alpine v3.23 xen 4.20.2-r2 —
Alpine v3.22 xen 4.20.2-r2 —
Alpine v3.21 xen 4.19.4-r2 —
Alpine v3.20 xen 4.18.5-r5 —

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