CVE-2024-42283
Published: Aug 17, 2024
Modified: May 12, 2026
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 430a049190de3c9e219f43084de9f1122da04570 - < fd06cb4a5fc7bda3dea31712618a62af72a1c6cbaffected 430a049190de3c9e219f43084de9f1122da04570 - < 5cc4d71dda2dd4f1520f40e634a527022e48ccd8affected 430a049190de3c9e219f43084de9f1122da04570 - < 9e8f558a3afe99ce51a642ce0d3637ddc2b5d5d0affected 430a049190de3c9e219f43084de9f1122da04570 - < 1377de719652d868f5317ba8398b7e74c5f0430baffected 430a049190de3c9e219f43084de9f1122da04570 - < 7704460acd7f5d35eb07c52500987dc9b95313fb+2 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.3unaffected 0 - < 5.3unaffected 5.4.282 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.224 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.165 - <= 5.15.*+4 more versions |
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