CVE-2024-42247Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Linux

Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.17%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedAug 7
Latest updateAug 14

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wireguard: allowedips: avoid unaligned 64-bit memory accesses On the parisc platform, the kernel issues kernel warnings because swap_endian() tries to load a 128-bit IPv6 address from an unaligned memory location: Kernel: unaligned access to 0x55f4688c in wg_allowedips_insert_v6+0x2c/0x80 [wireguard] (iir 0xf3010df) Kernel: unaligned access to 0x55f46884 in wg_allowedips_insert_v6+0x38/0x80 [wireguard] (iir 0xf2010dc) Avoid

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages10 packages

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

18
OSV
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OSV
linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 vulnerabilities2024-11-19
OSV
linux-gke vulnerabilities2024-11-15
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linux-raspi vulnerabilities2024-11-14
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linux-oem-6.8 vulnerabilities2024-11-13

📋Vendor Advisories

20
CISA ICS
Siemens Third-Party Components in SINEC OS2025-08-14
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (GKE) vulnerabilities2024-12-12
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Low Latency) vulnerabilities2024-11-19
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities2024-11-15
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities2024-11-14
CVE-2024-42247 — Linux vulnerability | cvebase