CVE-2024-42283

CVE Details

Release Date:	2024-08-17
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v3 metrics

Base Score:	5.5
Vector String:	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Version:	3.1
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	Low
User Interaction:	None
Scope:	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	High

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2024-12780	2024-10-11
Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2024-12782	2024-10-14
Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2024-12780	2024-10-11
Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2024-12782	2024-10-14
Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2024-12815	2024-11-11
Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel)	ELSA-2024-9605	2024-11-19
Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2024-12815	2024-11-11