CVE-2024-41079: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 6.1.101 (fixed in 6.1.101); from 6.2, before 6.6.42 (fixed in 6.6.42); from 6.7, before 6.9.11 (fixed in 6.9.11); version 6.10 only

Published 2024-07-29. Last modified 2026-08-04.