CVE-2026-79607 PUBLISHED

Xenstore: Guests can crash xenstored during Live Update

Assigner: XEN
Reserved: 25.08.2026 Published: 13.10.2026 Updated: 13.10.2026

During Xenstore live update the state record for a Xenstore watch with specified watch depth is written with two bytes missing. This results in an inconsistent state when reading the state back in the new Xenstore, causing a crash of Xenstore or wrong Xenstore data.

Product Status

Vendor Xen
Product Xen
Versions Default: unknown
  • Version consult Xen advisory XSA-514 is unknown

Affected Configurations

Only systems running Xen 4.22 are vulnerable. Systems running Xen 4.21 or older are not vulnerable.

Only systems running C xenstore either as daemon or as stubdom are vulnerable. Systems running oxenstored are not vulnerable.

Workarounds

Not doing a live update of Xenstore avoids the vulnerability.

Switching to oxenstored avoids the vulnerability.

Credits

  • This issue was discovered by Andrii Sultanov of Vates. finder

References

Impacts

  • An unprivileged guest can cause the Xenstore service to crash or to get corrupted during a live update of Xenstore, causing a DoS of the host regarding further domain administration actions.