Vulnerability CVE-2024-0340


Published: 2024-01-09

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.

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0340
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257406
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5kn47peabxjrptkqa6dwtyus35ahf4pcj4qm4pumse33kxqpjw@mec4se5relrc/T/

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