ACK: [SRU][Jammy][Focal][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2024-0340

[Manuel Diewald]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 04:59:24PM -0600, Bethany Jamison wrote:
> [Impact]
> 
> 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.
> 
> [Fix]
> 
> Clean cherry-pick.
> 
> [Test Case]
> 
> Compile and boot test.
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> 
> Issues could occur in vhost when making a new message.
> 
> Prathu Baronia (1):
>   vhost: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() followed by memset()
> 
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 
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Acked-by: Manuel Diewald <manuel.diewald at canonical.com>

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 Manuel