CVE-2024-0340

medium

Published 2024-11-12 · Modified 2024-06-05

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

A vulnerability was found in vhost_new_msg in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel, which does not properly initialize memory in messages passed between virtual guests and the host operating system in the vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() function. This issue can allow local privileged users to read some kernel memory contents when reading from the /dev/vhost-net device file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	9	fixed
rocky	8	fixed
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.1.82-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.10.216-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.4.4-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.4.4-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.4.4-1`
almalinux	8	fixed	`kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.