Missing Initialization of Resource Affecting linux-6.1 package, versions <6.1.119-1~deb11u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LINUX61-8601318
  • published2 Jan 2025
  • disclosed21 Aug 2024

Introduced: 21 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-43873  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-909  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 linux-6.1 to version 6.1.119-1~deb11u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-6.1 package and not the linux-6.1 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

CVSS Scores

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