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CVE-2024-27431

5.5 medium SSVC exploitation: none Modified

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpumap: Zero-initialise xdp_rxq_info struct before running XDP program When running an XDP program that is attached to a cpumap entry, we don't initialise the xdp_rxq_info data structure being used in the xdp_buff that backs the XDP program invocation. Tobias noticed that this leads to random values being returned as the xdp_md->rx_queue_index value for XDP programs running in a cpumap. This means we're basically returning the contents of the uninitialised memory, which is bad. Fix this by zero-initialising the rxq data structure before running the XDP program.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 12

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 5.5 · linux, debianNVD modified 2026-10-15 01:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 9

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 14