CVE-2024-0340

A vulnerability was found in vhostnewmsg 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:vhostnewmsg() function. This issue can allow local privileged users to read some kernel memory contents when reading from the /dev/vhost-net device file.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges

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    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "6.4"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "6.4-rc1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "6.4-rc2"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "6.4-rc3"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "6.4-rc4"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "6.4-rc5"
            }
        ]
    }
]

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-0340.json"