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

[Roxana Nicolescu]

On 31-01-2024 23:59, 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(-)
>
Applied to jammy, focal master-next branches. Thanks!