CVE-2024-42162

gve: Account for stopped queues when reading NIC stats

HIGH
7
CVSS Score
Published: July 30, 2024 at 07:47 AM UTC
Updated: October 21, 2026 at 01:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.3 ≤ v ≤ 6.9.92f523dc34ac8c355609e9b847852bf25bbdb30bf5.10
Vendor states this is fixed in 32675d828c8a392e20d5b42375ed112c407e4b62 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in af9bcf910b1f86244f39e15e701b2dc564b469a6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.160 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.9.9 (unaffected)

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-754

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