CVE-2024-41079
kernel: nvmet: always initialize cqe.result
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · July 29, 2024
Updated · October 29, 2026
Description
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE-402 · Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere ('Resource Leak')