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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-26638): Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-26638): Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/18/2024
Created
05/18/2024
Added
05/17/2024
Modified
07/15/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nbd: always initialize struct msghdr completely syzbot complains that msg->msg_get_inq value can be uninitialized [1] struct msghdr got many new fields recently, we should always make sure their values is zero by default. [1] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in tcp_recvmsg+0x686/0xac0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:2571 tcp_recvmsg+0x686/0xac0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:2571 inet_recvmsg+0x131/0x580 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:879 sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:1044 [inline] sock_recvmsg+0x12b/0x1e0 net/socket.c:1066 __sock_xmit+0x236/0x5c0 drivers/block/nbd.c:538 nbd_read_reply drivers/block/nbd.c:732 [inline] recv_work+0x262/0x3100 drivers/block/nbd.c:863 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2627 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0x104e/0x1e70 kernel/workqueue.c:2700 worker_thread+0xf45/0x1490 kernel/workqueue.c:2781 kthread+0x3ed/0x540 kernel/kthread.c:388 ret_from_fork+0x66/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:242 Local variable msg created at: __sock_xmit+0x4c/0x5c0 drivers/block/nbd.c:513 nbd_read_reply drivers/block/nbd.c:732 [inline] recv_work+0x262/0x3100 drivers/block/nbd.c:863 CPU: 1 PID: 7465 Comm: kworker/u5:1 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc7-syzkaller-00041-gf016f7547aee #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 11/17/2023 Workqueue: nbd5-recv recv_work

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-1015-starfive
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-1017-laptop
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-1018-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-1021-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-1021-nvidia
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-1021-nvidia-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-1022-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-1022-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-1022-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-1022-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-1024-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-1024-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-1024-oracle-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-41-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-41-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-41-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-5-0-41-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-laptop-23-10
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-6-5
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-64k-6-5
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-64k-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-22-04a
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-22-04b
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-22-04c
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-22-04d
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi-nolpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-starfive
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-22-04

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