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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-42106"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-30T07:46:01.865Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:47:55.627Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-42106"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-42106.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42106"
title: "inet_diag: Initialize pad field in struct inet_diag_req_v2"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ninet_diag: Initialize pad field in struct inet_diag_req_v2\n\nKMSAN reported uninit-value access in raw_lookup() [1]. Diag for raw\nsockets uses the pad field in struct inet_diag_req_v2 for the\nunderlying protocol. This field corresponds to the sdiag_raw_protocol\nfield in struct inet_diag_req_raw.\n\ninet_diag_get_exact_compat() converts inet_diag_req to\ninet_diag_req_v2, but leaves the pad field uninitialized. So the issue\noccurs when raw_lookup() accesses the sdiag_raw_protocol field.\n\nFix this by initializing the pad field in\ninet_diag_get_exact_compat(). Also, do the same fix in\ninet_diag_dump_compat() to avoid the similar issue in the future.\n\n[1]\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in raw_lookup net/ipv4/raw_diag.c:49 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in raw_sock_get+0x657/0x800 net/ipv4/raw_diag.c:71\n raw_lookup net/ipv4/raw_diag.c:49 [inline]\n raw_sock_get+0x657/0x800 net/ipv4/raw_diag.c:71\n raw_diag_dump_one+0xa1/0x660 net/ipv4/raw_diag.c:99\n inet_diag_cmd_exact+0x7d9/0x980\n inet_diag_get_exact_compat net/ipv4/inet_diag.c:1404 [inline]\n inet_diag_rcv_msg_compat+0x469/0x530 net/ipv4/inet_diag.c:1426\n sock_diag_rcv_msg+0x23d/0x740 net/core/sock_diag.c:282\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x537/0x670 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2564\n sock_diag_rcv+0x35/0x40 net/core/sock_diag.c:297\n netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1335 [inline]\n netlink_unicast+0xe74/0x1240 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1361\n netlink_sendmsg+0x10c6/0x1260 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1905\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]\n __sock_sendmsg+0x332/0x3d0 net/socket.c:745\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x7f0/0xb70 net/socket.c:2585\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x271/0x3b0 net/socket.c:2639\n __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2668 [inline]\n __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2677 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2675 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x27e/0x4a0 net/socket.c:2675\n x64_sys_call+0x135e/0x3ce0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:47\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xd9/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nUninit was stored to memory at:\n raw_sock_get+0x650/0x800 net/ipv4/raw_diag.c:71\n raw_diag_dump_one+0xa1/0x660 net/ipv4/raw_diag.c:99\n inet_diag_cmd_exact+0x7d9/0x980\n inet_diag_get_exact_compat net/ipv4/inet_diag.c:1404 [inline]\n inet_diag_rcv_msg_compat+0x469/0x530 net/ipv4/inet_diag.c:1426\n sock_diag_rcv_msg+0x23d/0x740 net/core/sock_diag.c:282\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x537/0x670 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2564\n sock_diag_rcv+0x35/0x40 net/core/sock_diag.c:297\n netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1335 [inline]\n netlink_unicast+0xe74/0x1240 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1361\n netlink_sendmsg+0x10c6/0x1260 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1905\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]\n __sock_sendmsg+0x332/0x3d0 net/socket.c:745\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x7f0/0xb70 net/socket.c:2585\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x271/0x3b0 net/socket.c:2639\n __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2668 [inline]\n __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2677 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2675 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x27e/0x4a0 net/socket.c:2675\n x64_sys_call+0x135e/0x3ce0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:47\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xd9/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nLocal variable req.i created at:\n inet_diag_get_exact_compat net/ipv4/inet_diag.c:1396 [inline]\n inet_diag_rcv_msg_compat+0x2a6/0x530 net/ipv4/inet_diag.c:1426\n sock_diag_rcv_msg+0x23d/0x740 net/core/sock_diag.c:282\n\nCPU: 1 PID: 8888 Comm: syz-executor.6 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc4-00217-g35bb670d65fc #32\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"432490f9d455fb842d70219f22d9d2c812371676","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7094a5fd20ab66028f1da7f06e0f2692d70346f9"},{"version":"432490f9d455fb842d70219f22d9d2c812371676","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0184bf0a349f4cf9e663abbe862ff280e8e4dfa2"},{"version":"432490f9d455fb842d70219f22d9d2c812371676","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7ef519c8efde152e0d632337f2994f6921e0b7e4"},{"version":"432490f9d455fb842d70219f22d9d2c812371676","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8366720519ea8d322a20780debdfd23d9fc0904a"},{"version":"432490f9d455fb842d70219f22d9d2c812371676","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d6f487e0704de2f2d15f8dd5d7d723210f2b2fdb"},{"version":"432490f9d455fb842d70219f22d9d2c812371676","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"76965648fe6858db7c5f3c700fef7aa5f124ca1c"},{"version":"432490f9d455fb842d70219f22d9d2c812371676","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f9b2010e8af49fac9d9562146fb81744d8a9b051"},{"version":"432490f9d455fb842d70219f22d9d2c812371676","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"61cf1c739f08190a4cbf047b9fbb192a94d87e3f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.19.318","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.280","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.163","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.98","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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