CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-42154

MediumCVSS 4.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.26%

16th percentile - higher than 16% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, tcp_metrics lacks validation of the source address length for TCP_METRICS_ATTR_SADDR_IPV4. It does not check that the address is at least 4 bytes long, which may lead to improper handling.

Risk Assessment

May lead to errors in TCP stack operation or potential security issues when processing malformed data.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix for CVE-2024-42154.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp_metrics: validate source addr length I don't see anything checking that TCP_METRICS_ATTR_SADDR_IPV4 is at least 4 bytes long, and the policy doesn't have an entry for this attribute at all (neither does it for IPv6 but v6 is manually validated).

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