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

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-06-21 · updated 2026-10-15
Weakness: CWE-476

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: from 2.6.37 before 5.4.278; from 5.5 before 5.10.219; from 5.11 before 5.15.161; from 5.16 before 6.1.93; from 6.2 before 6.6.33; from 6.7 before 6.9.4 — fixed in 5.10.219, 5.15.161, 5.4.278, 6.1.93, 6.6.33, 6.9.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.10.219, 5.15.161, 5.4.278, 6.1.93. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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