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GHSA-VQ8P-QG57-9728

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-07-29 15:30 – Updated: 2026-06-01 18:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nvmet: always initialize cqe.result

The spec doesn't mandate that the first two double words (aka results) for the command queue entry need to be set to 0 when they are not used (not specified). Though, the target implemention returns 0 for TCP and FC but not for RDMA.

Let's make RDMA behave the same and thus explicitly initializing the result field. This prevents leaking any data from the stack.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2024-41079 (GCVE-0-2024-41079)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-29 15:04 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:35

Title

nvmet: always initialize cqe.result

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmet: always initialize cqe.result The spec doesn't mandate that the first two double words (aka results) for the command queue entry need to be set to 0 when they are not used (not specified). Though, the target implemention returns 0 for TCP and FC but not for RDMA. Let's make RDMA behave the same and thus explicitly initializing the result field. This prevents leaking any data from the stack.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-10 16:21 UTC

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6a2cf8b0764f3ba7…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30d35b24b7957922f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10967873b80742261…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0990e8a863645496b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd0c1b8e045a8d278…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.8 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.8 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.209 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.101 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.42 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.9.11 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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