CVE-2024-31144

The Xapi component in Xen is vulnerable to a metadata injection attack during backup and restore operations. The vulnerability occurs because the host administrator's system searches for and mounts Virtual Disk Images (VDIs) in alphanumeric order by UUID to locate metadata. Since a malicious gues...

XenServer metadata restore failed "No valid Btrfs found on <metadata backup vdi path> Superblock bytenr is larger than device size <vm import command>

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pvcreate --restorefile fails "/dev/sdx device not found or ignored by filtering" in XenServer

When trying to restore the lvm metadata on a Physical volume from backup using the command pvcreate --restorefile, it is failing with the error /dev/sdx device not found...