CVE-2026-79604
Published:September 08, 2026
Updated:September 09, 2026
oxenstored maintains two datastructures about watches: one global trie, and one hashtable tracked per domain. When a xenbus reconnect is requested, watches are not cleared out of the global trie, so watches accumulate without bound in the global and per-domain structures, allowing a guest to exhaust host resources and cause a denial of service. Only systems using the OCaml Xenstored implementation are affected; the C Xenstored implementation is not. This is XSA-512.
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
8.2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
HIGH
CVSS v3
Base Score:
6.5
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling