FKIE_CVE-2026-23557

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-19 14:16 - Updated: 2026-05-19 18:56
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Any guest can cause xenstored to crash by issuing a XS_RESET_WATCHES command within a transaction due to an assert() triggering. In case xenstored was built with NDEBUG #defined nothing bad will happen, as assert() is doing nothing in this case. Note that the default is not to define NDEBUG for xenstored builds even in release builds of Xen.
References
security@xen.orghttps://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-484.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/28/11Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-484.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
xen xen *
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