CVE-2024-42162: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gve: Account for stopped queues when reading NIC stats We now account for the fact that the NIC might send us stats for a subset of queues. Without this change, gve_get_ethtool_stats might make an invalid access on the priv->stats_report->stats array.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.3, up to and including 6.9.9

Published 2024-07-30. Last modified 2026-08-04.