CVE-2024-42283

Medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: nexthop: Initialize all fields in dumped nexthops struct nexthop_grp contains two reserved fields that are not initialized by nla_put_nh_group(), and carry garbage. This can be observed e.g. with strace (edited for clarity): # ip nexthop add id 1 dev lo # ip nexthop add id 101 group 1 # strace -e recvmsg ip nexthop get id 101 ... recvmsg(... [{nla_len=12, nla_type=NHA_GROUP}, [{id=1, weight=0, resvd1=0x69, resvd2=0x67}]] ...) = 52 The fields are reserved and therefore not currently used. But as they are, they leak kernel memory, and the fact they are not just zero complicates repurposing of the fields for new ends. Initialize the full structure.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedAug 17, 2024
First seenAug 17, 2024

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel5.4.282, 5.10.224, 5.15.165, 6.1.103, 6.6.44, 6.10.3 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel5.3 ≤ v < 5.4.282, 5.5 ≤ v < 5.10.224, 5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.165, 5.16 ≤ v < 6.1.103, 6.2 ≤ v < 6.6.44, 6.7 ≤ v < 6.10.35.4.282, 5.10.224, 5.15.165, 6.1.103, 6.6.44, 6.10.3

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