---
id: CVE-2024-42162
title: 'gve: Account for stopped queues when reading NIC stats'
summary: |-
  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_ge…
severity: high
cvss: 7.8
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'
cvssSource: cna
vendor: Linux
product: Linux
affected:
  - >-
    Linux >= 2f523dc34ac8c355609e9b847852bf25bbdb30bf <
    acf609843a848e2c22ccce98eef109330403380d
  - >-
    Linux >= 2f523dc34ac8c355609e9b847852bf25bbdb30bf <
    32675d828c8a392e20d5b42375ed112c407e4b62
  - >-
    Linux >= 2f523dc34ac8c355609e9b847852bf25bbdb30bf <
    af9bcf910b1f86244f39e15e701b2dc564b469a6
  - Linux 5.10
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: partial
  timestamp: '2024-09-10T16:14:49.244034Z'
published: '2024-07-30'
updated: '2026-10-21'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-21T12:35:04.536Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42162'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acf609843a848e2c22ccce98eef109330403380d'
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32675d828c8a392e20d5b42375ed112c407e4b62'
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af9bcf910b1f86244f39e15e701b2dc564b469a6'
tags:
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00307
epssPercentile: 0.23349
ingestedAt: '2026-10-21T12:48:53.733Z'
---

## Overview

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

- `Linux >= 2f523dc34ac8c355609e9b847852bf25bbdb30bf < acf609843a848e2c22ccce98eef109330403380d`
- `Linux >= 2f523dc34ac8c355609e9b847852bf25bbdb30bf < 32675d828c8a392e20d5b42375ed112c407e4b62`
- `Linux >= 2f523dc34ac8c355609e9b847852bf25bbdb30bf < af9bcf910b1f86244f39e15e701b2dc564b469a6`
- `Linux 5.10`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.