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