CVE-2024-36270 netfilter: tproxy: bail out if IP has been disabled on the device

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel netfilter tproxy module allows local attackers to cause a system crash.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2024-36270?

CVE-2024-36270 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

netfilter: tproxy: bail out if IP has been disabled on the device

syzbot reports: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000003: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f] [..] RIP: 0010:nf_tproxy_laddr4+0xb7/0x340 net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_tproxy_ipv4.c:62 Call Trace: nft_tproxy_eval_v4 net/netfilter/nft_tproxy.c:56 [inline] nft_tproxy_eval+0xa9a/0x1a00 net/netfilter/nft_tproxy.c:168

__in_dev_get_rcu() can return NULL, so check for this.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-36270?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-36270?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2024-36270 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-36270 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-36270, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-36270, GHSA-gwmf-748f-8j3c, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36270.

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