Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-42270)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2024-42270). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.165, 6.1.104, 6.6.45, 6.10.4 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: iptables: Fix null-ptr-deref in iptable_nat_table_init().

We had a report that iptables-restore sometimes triggered null-ptr-deref
at boot time. [0]

The problem is that iptable_nat_table_init() is exposed to user space
before the kernel fully initialises netns.

In the small race window, a user could call iptable_nat_table_init()
that accesses net_generic(net, iptable_nat_net_id), which is available
only after registering iptable_nat_net_ops.

Let's call register_pernet_subsys() before xt_register_template().

[0]:
bpfilter: Loaded bpfilter_umh pid 11702
Started bpfilter
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000013
PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 2 PID: 11879 Comm: iptables-restor Not tainted 6.1.92-99.174.amzn2023.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: Amazon EC2 c6i.4xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 10/16/2017
RIP: 0010:iptable_nat_table_init (net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:87 net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:121) iptable_nat
Code: 10 4c 89 f6 48 89 ef e8 0b 19 bb ff 41 89 c4 85 c0 75 38 41 83 c7 01 49 83 c6 28 41 83 ff 04 75 dc 48 8b 44 24 08 48 8b 0c 24 <48> 89 08 4c 89 ef e8 a2 3b a2 cf 48 83 c4 10 44 89 e0 5b 5d 41 5c
RSP: 0018:ffffbef902843cd0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000013 RBX: ffff9f4b052caa20 RCX: ffff9f4b20988d80
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000064 RDI: ffffffffc04201c0
RBP: ffff9f4b29394…

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-42270 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.165, 6.1.104, 6.6.45, 6.10.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2024-42270" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2024-42270 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.165, 6.1.104, 6.6.45, 6.10.4 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 5.15.165, 6.1.104, 6.6.45, 6.10.4.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Kernel' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'Kernel' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で Kernel を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade Kernel to 5.15.165, 6.1.104, 6.6.45, 6.10.4
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.165, 6.1.104, 6.6.45, 6.10.4 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

Linux Kernel

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.15.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.165"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.104"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.45"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.10.4"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42270 linux Fixed in: 6.1.106-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42270 linux-hwe-edge