CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-39499

7.1 HIGH Published 2024-07-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-07-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-668

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmci: prevent speculation leaks by sanitizing event in event_deliver() Coverity spotted that event_msg is controlled by user-space, event_msg->event_data.event is passed to event_deliver() and used as an index without sanitization. This change ensures that the event index is sanitized to mitigate any possibility of speculative information leaks. This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc. Only compile tested, no access to HW.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.9 < 4.19.317) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.279) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.221) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.162) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.95) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.35) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.9.6)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere weakness

References