{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42270 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-42270 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-42270 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-42270 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42270 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42270/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42270/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-42270","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42270/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-42270","record":{"aliases":["AZL-47814","AZL-47850","BELL-CVE-2024-42270","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42270","GHSA-q4p2-vxpc-3r2v","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42270"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel netfilter module allows a local user to trigger a null pointer dereference, causing a system crash.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: iptables: Fix null-ptr-deref in iptable_nat_table_init().\n\nWe had a report that iptables-restore sometimes triggered null-ptr-deref\nat boot time. [0]\n\nThe problem is that iptable_nat_table_init() is exposed to user space\nbefore the kernel fully initialises netns.\n\nIn the small race window, a user could call iptable_nat_table_init()\nthat accesses net_generic(net, iptable_nat_net_id), which is available\nonly after registering iptable_nat_net_ops.\n\nLet's call register_pernet_subsys() before xt_register_template().\n\n[0]:\nbpfilter: Loaded bpfilter_umh pid 11702\nStarted bpfilter\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000013\n PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode\n PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nPREEMPT SMP NOPTI\nCPU: 2 PID: 11879 Comm: iptables-restor Not tainted 6.1.92-99.174.amzn2023.x86_64 #1\nHardware name: Amazon EC2 c6i.4xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 10/16/2017\nRIP: 0010:iptable_nat_table_init (net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:87 net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:121) iptable_nat\nCode: 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 \u003c48\u003e 89 08 4c 89 ef e8 a2 3b a2 cf 48 83 c4 10 44 89 e0 5b 5d 41 5c\nRSP: 0018:ffffbef902843cd0 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: 0000000000000013 RBX: ffff9f4b052caa20 RCX: ffff9f4b20988d80\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000064 RDI: ffffffffc04201c0\nRBP: ffff9f4b29394000 R08: ffff9f4b07f77258 R09: ffff9f4b07f77240\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff9f4b09635388 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: ffff9f4b1a3c6c00 R14: ffff9f4b20988e20 R15: 0000000000000004\nFS:  00007f6284340000(0000) GS:ffff9f51fe280000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000000013 CR3: 00000001d10a6005 CR4: 00000000007706e0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nPKRU: 55555554\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? show_trace_log_lvl (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:259)\n ? show_trace_log_lvl (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:259)\n ? xt_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1259)\n ? __die_body.cold (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:478 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:420)\n ? page_fault_oops (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:727)\n ? exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:40 ./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:75 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1470 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1518)\n ? asm_exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:570)\n ? iptable_nat_table_init (net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:87 net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:121) iptable_nat\n xt_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1259)\n xt_request_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1287)\n get_info (net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:965)\n ? security_capable (security/security.c:809 (discriminator 13))\n ? ns_capable (kernel/capability.c:376 kernel/capability.c:397)\n ? do_ipt_get_ctl (net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:1656)\n ? bpfilter_send_req (net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c:52) bpfilter\n nf_getsockopt (net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:116)\n ip_getsockopt (net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1827)\n __sys_getsockopt (net/socket.c:2327)\n __x64_sys_getsockopt (net/socket.c:2342 net/socket.c:2339 net/socket.c:2339)\n do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81)\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)\nRIP: 0033:0x7f62844685ee\nCode: 48 8b 0d 45 28 0f 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 49 89 ca b8 37 00 00 00 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 0a c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 15 09\nRSP: 002b:00007ffd1f83d638 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000037\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffd1f83d680 RCX: 00007f62844685ee\nRDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000004\nRBP: 0000000000000004 R08: 00007ffd1f83d670 R09: 0000558798ffa2a0\nR10: 00007ffd1f83d680 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffd1f83e3b2\nR13: 00007f6284\n---truncated---","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"netfilter: iptables: Fix null-ptr-deref in iptable_nat_table_init().","id":"CVE-2024-42270","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"net/iucv: fix use after free in iucv_sock_close()","id":"CVE-2024-42271"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"netfilter: iptables: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in ip6table_nat_table_init().","id":"CVE-2024-42269"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-08-17","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel netfilter module allows a local user to trigger a null pointer dereference, causing a system crash.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42270/"}