CVE-2024-42247: Linux kernel · wireguard: allowedips: avoid unaligned 64-bit memory accesses
Source GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.5 Medium.
Data as of 29 Oct 2026, 22:52 UTC
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 7 Aug 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 29 Oct 2026.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wireguard: allowedips: avoid unaligned 64-bit memory accesses On the parisc platform, the kernel issues kernel warnings because swap_endian() tries to load a 128-bit IPv6 address from an unaligned memory location: Kernel: unaligned access to 0x55f4688c in wg_allowedips_insert_v6+0x2c/0x80 [wireguard] (iir 0xf3010df) Kernel: unaligned access to 0x55f46884 in wg_allowedips_insert_v6+0x38/0x80 [wireguard] (iir 0xf2010dc) Avoid such unaligned memory accesses by instead using the get_unaligned_be64() helper macro. [Jason: replace src[8] in original patch with src+8]
References
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42247 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/217978a29c6ceca76d3c640bf94bdf50c268d801 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fb34bf76431e831f9863cd59adc0bd1f67b0fbf (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6638a203abad35fa636d59ac47bdbc4bc100fd74 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/948f991c62a4018fb81d85804eeab3029c6209f8 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae630de24efb123d7199a43256396d7758f4cb75 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4764f0ad3d68de8a0b847c05f427afb86dd54e6 (opens in a new tab)
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html (opens in a new tab)