CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-43873

7.8 HIGH Published 2024-08-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-08-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-909

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost/vsock: always initialize seqpacket_allow There are two issues around seqpacket_allow: 1. seqpacket_allow is not initialized when socket is created. Thus if features are never set, it will be read uninitialized. 2. if VIRTIO_VSOCK_F_SEQPACKET is set and then cleared, then seqpacket_allow will not be cleared appropriately (existing apps I know about don't usually do this but it's legal and there's no way to be sure no one relies on this). To fix: - initialize seqpacket_allow after allocation - set it unconditionally in set_features

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.14 < 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-909 Missing Initialization of Resource weakness

References