Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-6152086
  • published11 Jan 2024
  • disclosed9 Jan 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Jan 2024

CVE-2024-0340  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor via the vhost_new_msg function. An attacker can read some kernel memory contents by reading from the /dev/vhost-net device file. This is only exploitable if the attacker has local privileged access.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1