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{"cveTags": [], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "Any guest issuing a Xenstore command accessing a node using the\n(illegal) node path \"/local/domain/\", will crash xenstored due to a\nclobbered error indicator in xenstored when verifying the node path.\n\nNote that the crash is forced via a failing assert() statement in\nxenstored. In case xenstored is being built with NDEBUG #defined,\nan unprivileged guest trying to access the node path \"/local/domain/\"\nwill result in it no longer being serviced by xenstored, other guests\n(including dom0) will still be serviced, but xenstored will use up\nall cpu time it can get."}], "id": "CVE-2026-23555", "lastModified": "2026-03-23T08:16:17.253", "metrics": {}, "published": "2026-03-23T07:16:07.330", "references": [{"source": "security@xen.org", "url": "https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-481.html"}, {"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/17/7"}, {"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "url": "http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-481.html"}], "sourceIdentifier": "security@xen.org", "vulnStatus": "Received"}

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