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.
History

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000


Wed, 13 Nov 2024 02:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::nfv
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::realtime
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
References

Sat, 14 Sep 2024 00:45:00 +0000


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2024-01-09T17:36:11.578Z

Updated: 2024-11-15T15:27:36.336Z

Reserved: 2024-01-09T12:08:22.012Z

Link: CVE-2024-0340

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-09T18:15:47.503

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:46:20.887

Link: CVE-2024-0340

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2023-05-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-0340 - Bugzilla