FKIE_CVE-2024-0340

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-01-09 18:15 - Updated: 2025-05-14 04:16
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3618
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3627
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9315
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7526
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0340Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257406Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5kn47peabxjrptkqa6dwtyus35ahf4pcj4qm4pumse33kxqpjw@mec4se5relrc/T/Mailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3618
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3627
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0340Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257406Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5kn47peabxjrptkqa6dwtyus35ahf4pcj4qm4pumse33kxqpjw@mec4se5relrc/T/Mailing List, Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.4
linux linux_kernel 6.4
linux linux_kernel 6.4
linux linux_kernel 6.4
linux linux_kernel 6.4
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