CVE-2024-42283

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.3-6.10.2 - Information Exposure via Uninitialized Nexthop Group Fields

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 15.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-908
Status published
Products (23)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.165linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.103linux
linux/Kernel 5.3.0 - 5.4.282linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.224linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.44linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.10.3linux
Linux/Linux < 5.3
Linux/Linux 430a049190de3c9e219f43084de9f1122da04570 - 1377de719652d868f5317ba8398b7e74c5f0430b
Linux/Linux 430a049190de3c9e219f43084de9f1122da04570 - 5cc4d71dda2dd4f1520f40e634a527022e48ccd8
Linux/Linux 430a049190de3c9e219f43084de9f1122da04570 - 6d745cd0e9720282cd291d36b9db528aea18add2
... and 13 more
Published Aug 17, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026