# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-42154"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-30T07:46:51.456Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:48:05.629Z"
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-2024-42154"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-42154.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42154"
title: "tcp_metrics: validate source addr length"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp_metrics: validate source addr length\n\nI don't see anything checking that TCP_METRICS_ATTR_SADDR_IPV4\nis at least 4 bytes long, and the policy doesn't have an entry\nfor this attribute at all (neither does it for IPv6 but v6 is\nmanually validated)."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3e7013ddf55af7bc191792b8aea0c2b94fb0fef5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"19d997b59fa1fd7a02e770ee0881c0652b9c32c9"},{"version":"3e7013ddf55af7bc191792b8aea0c2b94fb0fef5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a2e79dbe2236a1289412d2044994f7ab419b44c"},{"version":"3e7013ddf55af7bc191792b8aea0c2b94fb0fef5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cdffc358717e436bb67122bb82c1a2a26e050f98"},{"version":"3e7013ddf55af7bc191792b8aea0c2b94fb0fef5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ef7c428b425beeb52b894e16f1c4b629d6cebfb6"},{"version":"3e7013ddf55af7bc191792b8aea0c2b94fb0fef5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"31f03bb04146c1c6df6c03e9f45401f5f5a985d3"},{"version":"3e7013ddf55af7bc191792b8aea0c2b94fb0fef5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c2debdd170e395934ac0e039748576dfde14e99"},{"version":"3e7013ddf55af7bc191792b8aea0c2b94fb0fef5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d550dd5418729a6e77fe7721d27adea7152e321"},{"version":"3e7013ddf55af7bc191792b8aea0c2b94fb0fef5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"66be40e622e177316ae81717aa30057ba9e61dff"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.14"},{"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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