{"id":"CVE-2024-42269","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-42269","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:13:51.723Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: iptables: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in ip6table_nat_table_init(). ip6table_nat_table_init() accesses net->gen->ptr[ip6table_nat_net_ops.id], but the function is exposed to…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: iptables: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in ip6table_nat_table_init().\n\nip6table_nat_table_init() accesses net->gen->ptr[ip6table_nat_net_ops.id],\nbut the function is exposed to user space before the entry is allocated\nvia register_pernet_subsys().\n\nLet's call register_pernet_subsys() before xt_register_template().","published":"2024-08-17T09:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T07:49:09.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00226,"percentile":0.13194,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.23%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/419ee6274c5153b89c4393c1946faa4c3cad4f9e","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87dba44e9471b79b255d0736858a897332db9226","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91b6df6611b7edb28676c4f63f90c56c30d3e601","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c22921df777de5606f1047b1345b8d22ef1c0b34","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e85b9b6a87be4cb3710082038b677e97f2389003","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42269","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}