Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-42321

medium Nessus Plugin ID 228791

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: flow_dissector: use DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE The following splat is easy to reproduce upstream as well as in -stable kernels.
Florian Westphal provided the following commit: d1dab4f71d37 (net: add and use
__skb_get_hash_symmetric_net) but this complementary fix has been also suggested by Willem de Bruijn and it can be easily backported to -stable kernel which consists in using DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE instead to silence the following splat given __skb_get_hash() is used by the nftables tracing infrastructure to to identify packets in traces. [69133.561393] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [69133.561404] WARNING:
CPU: 0 PID: 43576 at net/core/flow_dissector.c:1104 __skb_flow_dissect+0x134f/ [...] [69133.561944] CPU: 0 PID: 43576 Comm: socat Not tainted 6.10.0-rc7+ #379 [69133.561959] RIP:
0010:__skb_flow_dissect+0x134f/0x2ad0 [69133.561970] Code: 83 f9 04 0f 84 b3 00 00 00 45 85 c9 0f 84 aa 00 00 00 41 83 f9 02 0f 84 81 fc ff ff 44 0f b7 b4 24 80 00 00 00 e9 8b f9 ff ff <0f> 0b e9 20 f3 ff ff 41 f6 c6 20 0f 84 e4 ef ff ff 48 8d 7b 12 e8 [69133.561979] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000006fc0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [69133.561988] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff82f33e20 RCX: ffffffff81ab7e19 [69133.561994] RDX:
dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffc90000007388 RDI: ffff888103a1b418 [69133.562001] RBP: ffffc90000007310 R08:
0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [69133.562007] R10: ffffc90000007388 R11: ffffffff810cface R12:
ffff888103a1b400 [69133.562013] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff82f33e2a R15: ffffffff82f33e28 [69133.562020] FS: 00007f40f7131740(0000) GS:ffff888390800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [69133.562027] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [69133.562033] CR2: 00007f40f7346ee0 CR3:
000000015d200001 CR4: 00000000001706f0 [69133.562040] Call Trace: [69133.562044] <IRQ> [69133.562049] ?
__warn+0x9f/0x1a0 [ 1211.841384] ? __skb_flow_dissect+0x107e/0x2860 [...] [ 1211.841496] ? bpf_flow_dissect+0x160/0x160 [ 1211.841753] __skb_get_hash+0x97/0x280 [ 1211.841765] ?
__skb_get_hash_symmetric+0x230/0x230 [ 1211.841776] ? mod_find+0xbf/0xe0 [ 1211.841786] ? get_stack_info_noinstr+0x12/0xe0 [ 1211.841798] ? bpf_ksym_find+0x56/0xe0 [ 1211.841807] ?
__rcu_read_unlock+0x2a/0x70 [ 1211.841819] nft_trace_init+0x1b9/0x1c0 [nf_tables] [ 1211.841895] ? nft_trace_notify+0x830/0x830 [nf_tables] [ 1211.841964] ? get_stack_info+0x2b/0x80 [ 1211.841975] ? nft_do_chain_arp+0x80/0x80 [nf_tables] [ 1211.842044] nft_do_chain+0x79c/0x850 [nf_tables] (CVE-2024-42321)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 228791

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_42321.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/5/2025

Updated: 3/5/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-42321

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/17/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-42321