CVE-2023-34323 (GCVE-0-2023-34323)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-05 16:30
Modified
2025-11-04 19:16
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).
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