CVE-2024-42134

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42134
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-42134.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-42134
Downstream
Published
2024-07-30T08:15:05Z
Modified
2025-04-07T08:00:47Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

virtio-pci: Check if is_avq is NULL

[bug] In the virtiopcicommon.c function vpdelvqs, vpdev->isavq is involved to determine whether it is admin virtqueue, but this function vpdev->isavq may be empty. For installations, virtiopcilegacy does not assign a value to vpdev->isavq.

[fix] Check whether it is vpdev->isavq before use.

[test] Test with virsh Attach device Before this patch, the following command would crash the guest system

After applying the patch, everything seems to be working fine.

References

Affected packages

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.9.9-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}