Published Aug 17, 2024Sources checked Nov 11, 2026
5.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10
What this means
Review the available evidence
CVE-2024-42269 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
What to do next
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Vendor revision: Aug 12, 2026
CBL-Mariner Releases
Vendor-listed releases
5.15.167.1-1
6.6.47.1-1
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2024-42269?
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 user space before the entry is allocated via register_pernet_subsys().
Let's call register_pernet_subsys() before xt_register_template().