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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-43873

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 8/20/2024 9:15:11 PM

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Added Description

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

vhost/vsock: always initialize seqpacket_allow

There are two issues around seqpacket_allow:
1. seqpacket_allow is not initialized when socket is
   created. Thus if features are never set, it will be
   read uninitialized.
2. if VIRTIO_VSOCK_F_SEQPACKET is set and then cleared,
   then seqpacket_allow will not be cleared appropriately
   (existing apps I know about don't usually do this but
    it's legal and there's no way to be sure no one relies
    on this).

To fix:
	- initialize seqpacket_allow after allocation
	- set it unconditionally in set_features
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e1fdcbdde3b7663e5d8faeb2245b9b151417d22 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3062cb100787a9ddf45de30004b962035cd497fb [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30bd4593669443ac58515e23557dc8cef70d8582 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea558f10fb05a6503c6e655a1b7d81fdf8e5924c [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eab96e8716cbfc2834b54f71cc9501ad4eec963b [No types assigned]