CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-42283
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-08-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-908
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: nexthop: Initialize all fields in dumped nexthops
struct nexthop_grp contains two reserved fields that are not initialized by
nla_put_nh_group(), and carry garbage. This can be observed e.g. with
strace (edited for clarity):
# ip nexthop add id 1 dev lo
# ip nexthop add id 101 group 1
# strace -e recvmsg ip nexthop get id 101
...
recvmsg(... [{nla_len=12, nla_type=NHA_GROUP},
[{id=1, weight=0, resvd1=0x69, resvd2=0x67}]] ...) = 52
The fields are reserved and therefore not currently used. But as they are, they
leak kernel memory, and the fact they are not just zero complicates repurposing
of the fields for new ends. Initialize the full structure.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.3 < 5.4.282)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.224)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.165)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.103)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.44)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.10.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1377de719652d868f5317ba8398b7e74c5f0430b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5cc4d71dda2dd4f1520f40e634a527022e48ccd8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d745cd0e9720282cd291d36b9db528aea18add2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7704460acd7f5d35eb07c52500987dc9b95313fb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e8f558a3afe99ce51a642ce0d3637ddc2b5d5d0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a13d3864b76ac87085ec530b2ff8e37482a63a96 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd06cb4a5fc7bda3dea31712618a62af72a1c6cb Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00003.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html lists.debian.org
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html cert-portal.siemens.com