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CVE-2024-0340

Kernel: information disclosure in vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Not supplied / Not suppliedaffected 0 before 6.4-rc6
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8unaffected 0:4.18.0-553.5.1.rt7.346.el8_10 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8unaffected 0:4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9unaffected 0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9unaffected 0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Supportunaffected 0:5.14.0-427.68.1.el9_4 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9affected

CWE

CWE-200

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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CISA-ADP

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