UBUNTU-CVE-2024-0340
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.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
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03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0340
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/4d8df0f5f79f747d75a7d356d9b9ea40a4e4c8a9
- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5kn47peabxjrptkqa6dwtyus35ahf4pcj4qm4pumse33kxqpjw@mec4se5relrc/T/
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-0340
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6681-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6681-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6681-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6681-4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6686-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6686-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6686-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6686-4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6686-5
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6688-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6705-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6716-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0340