vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2024-0340: ELSA-2024-12271: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/22/2023
Added
04/09/2024
Modified
01/23/2025

Description

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.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-kerneloracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek
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