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
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 4.4 · red hatNVD modified 2026-10-29 07:23
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 7
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3618 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_redhat
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3627 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_redhat
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9315 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_redhat
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7526 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_redhat
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0340 vdb-entry, x_refsource_redhat
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257406 issue-tracking, x_refsource_redhat
- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5kn47peabxjrptkqa6dwtyus35ahf4pcj4qm4pumse33kxqpjw@mec4se5relrc/T/