UBUNTU-CVE-2024-0340
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UBUNTU-CVE-2024-0340
Summary:
Details: 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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-0340, https://git.kernel.org/linus/4d8df0f5f79f747d75a7d356d9b9ea40a4e4c8a9, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0340, https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5kn47peabxjrptkqa6dwtyus35ahf4pcj4qm4pumse33kxqpjw@mec4se5relrc/T/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6681-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6686-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6688-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6681-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6681-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6686-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6681-4, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6686-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6686-4, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6705-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6716-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6686-5, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0340
Affected packages
Package
Name: linux-azure
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-azure?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
