CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-0340

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-01-09 Modified 2026-10-29 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-01-09
Last modified
2026-10-29
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 6.4) • linux linux kernel 6.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References