CVE-2024-0340

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0340
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-0340.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-0340
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Published
2024-01-09T18:15:47Z
Modified
2025-08-09T19:01:28Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
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Details

A vulnerability was found in vhostnewmsg 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:vhostnewmsg() function. This issue can allow local privileged users to read some kernel memory contents when reading from the /dev/vhost-net device file.

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Affected packages