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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-43873"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-08-21T00:06:25.114Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:31:28.675Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-43873"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-43873.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43873"
title: "vhost/vsock: always initialize seqpacket_allow"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvhost/vsock: always initialize seqpacket_allow\n\nThere are two issues around seqpacket_allow:\n1. seqpacket_allow is not initialized when socket is\n   created. Thus if features are never set, it will be\n   read uninitialized.\n2. if VIRTIO_VSOCK_F_SEQPACKET is set and then cleared,\n   then seqpacket_allow will not be cleared appropriately\n   (existing apps I know about don't usually do this but\n    it's legal and there's no way to be sure no one relies\n    on this).\n\nTo fix:\n\t- initialize seqpacket_allow after allocation\n\t- set it unconditionally in set_features"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ced7b713711fdd8f99d8d04dc53451441d194c60","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ea558f10fb05a6503c6e655a1b7d81fdf8e5924c"},{"version":"ced7b713711fdd8f99d8d04dc53451441d194c60","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3062cb100787a9ddf45de30004b962035cd497fb"},{"version":"ced7b713711fdd8f99d8d04dc53451441d194c60","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"30bd4593669443ac58515e23557dc8cef70d8582"},{"version":"ced7b713711fdd8f99d8d04dc53451441d194c60","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eab96e8716cbfc2834b54f71cc9501ad4eec963b"},{"version":"ced7b713711fdd8f99d8d04dc53451441d194c60","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e1fdcbdde3b7663e5d8faeb2245b9b151417d22"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"},{"version":"5.15.165","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.44","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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