Vulnerability · Published Mar 18, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-26638nbd: always initialize struct msghdr completely

Medium 4.4

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 13% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.4Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 87.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8bpftool4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-abi-stablelists4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-core4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-cross-headers4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug-core4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug-devel4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug-modules4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug-modules-extra4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-devel4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-doc4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-headers4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-modules4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-modules-extra4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-tools4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-tools-libs4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-tools-libs-devel4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump-core4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump-devel4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump-modules4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8perf4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
AlmaLinux:8python3-perf4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:7000
Debian:12linux6.1.76-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26638
Debian:13linux6.6.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26638
Debian:14linux6.6.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26638
Rocky Linux:8kernel0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10RLSA-2024:7000
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.56.5.0-1022.23~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.56.5.0-1022.24~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.56.5.0-41.41~22.04.2UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.56.5.0-41.41.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.56.5.0-1021.22UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.56.5.0-1024.25UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.56.5.0-1024.24~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.56.5.0-40.40.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.56.5.0-1015.16~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26638

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux f94fd25cb0aaf77fd7453f31c5d394a1a68ecf60 – before d9c54763e5cdbbd3f81868597fe8aca3c96e6387f94fd25cb0aaf77fd7453f31c5d394a1a68ecf60 – before 1960f2b534da1e6c65fb96f9e98bda773495f406f94fd25cb0aaf77fd7453f31c5d394a1a68ecf60 – before b0028f333420a65a53a63978522db680b37379ddf94fd25cb0aaf77fd7453f31c5d394a1a68ecf60 – before 78fbb92af27d0982634116c7a31065f24d092826
Linux Linux 5.19

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