CVE-2024-42070

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: nf_tables: fully validate NFT_DATA_VALUE on store to data registers

register store validation for NFT_DATA_VALUE is conditional, however, the datatype is always either NFT_DATA_VALUE or NFT_DATA_VERDICT. This only requires a new helper function to infer the register type from the set datatype so this conditional check can be removed. Otherwise, pointer to chain object can be leaked through the registers.

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
• For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
• When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
• To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23752737c6a618e994f9a310ec2568881a6b49c4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40188a25a9847dbeb7ec67517174a835a677752f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41a6375d48deaf7f730304b5153848bfa1c2980f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/461302e07f49687ffe7d105fa0a330c07c7646d8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d43d789b57943720dca4181a05f6477362b94cf
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7931d32955e09d0a11b1fe0b6aac1bfa061c005c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/952bf8df222599baadbd4f838a49c4fef81d2564
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efb27ad05949403848f487823b597ed67060e007