CVE-2024-0340

Name	CVE-2024-0340
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	vulnerable
	buster (security)	4.19.304-1	vulnerable
	bullseye	5.10.209-2	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.205-2	vulnerable
	bookworm	6.1.76-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.85-1	fixed
	trixie	6.6.15-2	fixed
	sid	6.7.12-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.82-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.4.4-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/4d8df0f5f79f747d75a7d356d9b9ea40a4e4c8a9 (6.4-rc6)