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      <title>CVE-2023-52842 — virtio/vsock: Fix uninit-value in virtio_transport_recv_pkt()</title>
      <link>https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2023-52842</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Linux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;virtio/vsock: Fix uninit-value in virtio_transport_recv_pkt()&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;KMSAN reported the following uninit-value access issue:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=====================================================
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in virtio_transport_recv_pkt+0x1dfb/0x26a0 net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c:1421
 virtio_transport_recv_pkt+0x1dfb/0x26a0 net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c:1421
 vsock_loopback_work+0x3bb/0x5a0 net/vmw_vsock/vsock_loopback.c:120
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2630 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xff6/0x1e60 kernel/workqueue.c:2703
 worker_thread+0xeca/0x14d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2784
 kthread+0x3cc/0x520 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:304&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Uninit was stored to memory at:
 virtio_transport_space_update net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c:1274 [inline]
 virtio_transport_recv_pkt+0x1ee8/0x26a0 net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c:1415
 vsock_loopback_work+0x3bb/0x5a0 net/vmw_vsock/vsock_loopback.c:120
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2630 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xff6/0x1e60 kernel/workqueue.c:2703
 worker_thread+0xeca/0x14d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2784
 kthread+0x3cc/0x520 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:304&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x105/0xad0 mm/slab.h:767
 sl…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Linux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;virtio/vsock: Fix uninit-value in virtio_transport_recv_pkt()&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;KMSAN reported the following uninit-value access issue:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=====================================================
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in virtio_transport_recv_pkt+0x1dfb/0x26a0 net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c:1421
 virtio_transport_recv_pkt+0x1dfb/0x26a0 net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c:1421
 vsock_loopback_work+0x3bb/0x5a0 net/vmw_vsock/vsock_loopback.c:120
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2630 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xff6/0x1e60 kernel/workqueue.c:2703
 worker_thread+0xeca/0x14d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2784
 kthread+0x3cc/0x520 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:304&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Uninit was stored to memory at:
 virtio_transport_space_update net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c:1274 [inline]
 virtio_transport_recv_pkt+0x1ee8/0x26a0 net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c:1415
 vsock_loopback_work+0x3bb/0x5a0 net/vmw_vsock/vsock_loopback.c:120
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2630 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xff6/0x1e60 kernel/workqueue.c:2703
 worker_thread+0xeca/0x14d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2784
 kthread+0x3cc/0x520 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:304&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x105/0xad0 mm/slab.h:767
 sl…&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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