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CVE-2024-43873

vhost/vsock: always initialize seqpacket_allow

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Descriptions

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

*Credits: N/A
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Timeline
  • 2024-08-17 CVE Reserved
  • 2024-08-21 CVE Published
  • 2024-09-04 EPSS Updated
  • 2024-11-05 CVE Updated
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Linux
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>= 5.14 < 6.1.103
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Linux
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>= 5.14 < 6.6.44
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Linux
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>= 5.14 < 6.10.3
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Linux
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>= 5.14 < 6.11
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