CVE-2024-42269 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.1
EPSS
0.0%
top 99.42%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 17
Latest updateJan 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: iptables: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in ip6table_nat_table_init().
ip6table_nat_table_init() accesses net->gen->ptr[ip6table_nat_net_ops.id],
but the function is exposed to user space before the entry is allocated
via register_pernet_subsys().
Let's call register_pernet_subsys() before xt_register_template().
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