vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-43873: kernel: vhost/vsock: always initialize seqpacket_allow (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 21, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 15, 2025

Description

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

Solution(s)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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