{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42272 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-42272 is a high-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-2024-42272 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-42272 is a high-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-2024-42272 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-2024-42272/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42272/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-42272","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42272/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-42272","record":{"aliases":["AZL-49749","BELL-CVE-2024-42272","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42272","GHSA-cfx8-vqq2-xr93","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42272"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can read uninitialized kernel memory via the sched act_ct module due to improper handling of struct padding in hash table lookups.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"information_disclosure"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-908","name":"Use of Uninitialized Resource"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsched: act_ct: take care of padding in struct zones_ht_key\n\nBlamed commit increased lookup key size from 2 bytes to 16 bytes,\nbecause zones_ht_key got a struct net pointer.\n\nMake sure rhashtable_lookup() is not using the padding bytes\nwhich are not initialized.\n\n BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in rht_ptr_rcu include/linux/rhashtable.h:376 [inline]\n BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __rhashtable_lookup include/linux/rhashtable.h:607 [inline]\n BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in rhashtable_lookup include/linux/rhashtable.h:646 [inline]\n BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in rhashtable_lookup_fast include/linux/rhashtable.h:672 [inline]\n BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in tcf_ct_flow_table_get+0x611/0x2260 net/sched/act_ct.c:329\n  rht_ptr_rcu include/linux/rhashtable.h:376 [inline]\n  __rhashtable_lookup include/linux/rhashtable.h:607 [inline]\n  rhashtable_lookup include/linux/rhashtable.h:646 [inline]\n  rhashtable_lookup_fast include/linux/rhashtable.h:672 [inline]\n  tcf_ct_flow_table_get+0x611/0x2260 net/sched/act_ct.c:329\n  tcf_ct_init+0xa67/0x2890 net/sched/act_ct.c:1408\n  tcf_action_init_1+0x6cc/0xb30 net/sched/act_api.c:1425\n  tcf_action_init+0x458/0xf00 net/sched/act_api.c:1488\n  tcf_action_add net/sched/act_api.c:2061 [inline]\n  tc_ctl_action+0x4be/0x19d0 net/sched/act_api.c:2118\n  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x12fc/0x1410 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6647\n  netlink_rcv_skb+0x375/0x650 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550\n  rtnetlink_rcv+0x34/0x40 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6665\n  netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1331 [inline]\n  netlink_unicast+0xf52/0x1260 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1357\n  netlink_sendmsg+0x10da/0x11e0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1901\n  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]\n  __sock_sendmsg+0x30f/0x380 net/socket.c:745\n  ____sys_sendmsg+0x877/0xb60 net/socket.c:2597\n  ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2651\n  __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2680 [inline]\n  __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2689 [inline]\n  __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2687 [inline]\n  __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x307/0x4a0 net/socket.c:2687\n  x64_sys_call+0x2dd6/0x3c10 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:47\n  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n  do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nLocal variable key created at:\n  tcf_ct_flow_table_get+0x4a/0x2260 net/sched/act_ct.c:324\n  tcf_ct_init+0xa67/0x2890 net/sched/act_ct.c:1408","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":"sched: act_ct: take care of padding in struct zones_ht_key","id":"CVE-2024-42272","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"information_disclosure","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":6,"next":{"headline":"f2fs: assign CURSEG_ALL_DATA_ATGC if blkaddr is valid","id":"CVE-2024-42273"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"net/iucv: fix use after free in iucv_sock_close()","id":"CVE-2024-42271"},"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 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