CVE intelligence

CVE-2024-42162

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Jul 30, 2024Sources checked Oct 3, 2026

7.0HIGHCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2024-42162 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.0. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2024-42162?

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.