Vulnerability · Published Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-42247wireguard: allowedips: avoid unaligned 64-bit memory accesses

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 54% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 45.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wireguard: allowedips: avoid unaligned 64-bit memory accesses On the parisc platform, the kernel issues kernel warnings because swap_endian() tries to load a 128-bit IPv6 address from an unaligned memory location: Kernel: unaligned access to 0x55f4688c in wg_allowedips_insert_v6+0x2c/0x80 [wireguard] (iir 0xf3010df) Kernel: unaligned access to 0x55f46884 in wg_allowedips_insert_v6+0x38/0x80 [wireguard] (iir 0xf2010dc) Avoid such unaligned memory accesses by instead using the get_unaligned_be64() helper macro. [Jason: replace src[8] in original patch with src+8]

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.106-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42247
Debian:13linux6.9.10-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42247
Debian:14linux6.9.10-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-121.131UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-48.48UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1069.75UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1018.20UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1018.19~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1072.81UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1017.20UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1017.20~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1072.81.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1068.76UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1017.19UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1017.19~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1066.72UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1013.17UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1052.59UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1002.4UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-48.48~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1062.65UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1015.15UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1015.15~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1064.70UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1066.71UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-121.131UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-48.48.3UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-48.48.3~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1064.65UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1017.19UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1017.19~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1017.19.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1028.28UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1016.16UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1016.16UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1067.73UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1015.16UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1015.15~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1062.65UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1014.16UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv6.8.0-48.48.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-48.48.1~22.04.2UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinx6.8.0-1009.10UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1035.39UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42247

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd – before ae630de24efb123d7199a43256396d7758f4cb75e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd – before b4764f0ad3d68de8a0b847c05f427afb86dd54e6e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd – before 217978a29c6ceca76d3c640bf94bdf50c268d801e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd – before 6638a203abad35fa636d59ac47bdbc4bc100fd74e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd – before 2fb34bf76431e831f9863cd59adc0bd1f67b0fbfe7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd – before 948f991c62a4018fb81d85804eeab3029c6209f8
Linux Linux 5.6

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