Information Exposure Affecting kernel-zfcpdump-devel package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELZFCPDUMPDEVEL-6147814
- published 9 Jan 2024
- disclosed 22 May 2023
Introduced: 22 May 2023
CVE-2024-0340 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-zfcpdump-devel to version 0:4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:3618.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-zfcpdump-devel package and not the kernel-zfcpdump-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0340
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257406
- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5kn47peabxjrptkqa6dwtyus35ahf4pcj4qm4pumse33kxqpjw@mec4se5relrc/T/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3618
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html