CVE-2024-42283

The CVE-2024-42283 issue in the Linux kernel concerns net/nexthop: two reserved fields in the nexthop_grp were not initialized by nla_put_nh_group(), allowing garbage to leak from the kernel. The public description notes these fields are reserved and currently unused, but their non‑zero values ca...

CVE-2024-42283: Use of Uninitialized Resource

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: nexthop: Initialize all fields in dumped nexthops struct nexthopgrp contains two reserved fields that are not initialized by nlaputnhgroup, and carry garbage. This can be observed e.g. with strace edited for clarity: ip...