Security Advisory

CVE-2024-27431

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-05-17 12:02:10
Last updated 2026-05-12 11:51:37
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpumap: Zero-initialise xdp_rxq_info struct before running XDP program When running an XDP program that is attached to a cpumap entry, we dont initialise the xdp_rxq_info data structure being used in the xdp_buff that backs the XDP program invocation. Tobias noticed that this leads to random values being returned as the xdp_md->rx_queue_index value for XDP programs running in a cpumap. This means were basically returning the contents of the uninitialised memory, which is bad. Fix this by zero-initialising the rxq data structure before running the XDP program.