{"schema_version":"1.7.5","id":"CVE-2024-0340","published":"2024-01-09T18:15:47.503Z","modified":"2026-03-15T22:49:03.322265Z","related":["ALSA-2024:3618","ALSA-2024:3627","SUSE-SU-2024:0476-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0483-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0484-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0514-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0515-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0516-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0856-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0857-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0926-1"],"details":"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.","affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-0340.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.4"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"6.4-rc1"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"6.4-rc2"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"6.4-rc3"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"6.4-rc4"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"6.4-rc5"}]}]}}],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3618"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3627"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9315"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7526"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0340"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257406"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5kn47peabxjrptkqa6dwtyus35ahf4pcj4qm4pumse33kxqpjw@mec4se5relrc/T/"}],"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"}]}