The vulnerability of the swap_endian() function in the WireGuard subsystem of the Linux operating system allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the swapendian function in the drivers/net/wireguard/allowedips.c sub-module of the WireGuard subsystem in the Linux operating system is related to incorrect data reading. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a attacker to cause a service failure...

CVE-2024-42247

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 swapendian tries to load a 128-bit IPv6 address from an unaligned memory location: Kernel: unaligned...