CVE-2024-42270 (GCVE-0-2024-42270)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-17 08:54 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:29
VLAI
EPSS
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Title
netfilter: iptables: Fix null-ptr-deref in iptable_nat_table_init().
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: iptables: Fix null-ptr-deref in iptable_nat_table_init().
We had a report that iptables-restore sometimes triggered null-ptr-deref
at boot time. [0]
The problem is that iptable_nat_table_init() is exposed to user space
before the kernel fully initialises netns.
In the small race window, a user could call iptable_nat_table_init()
that accesses net_generic(net, iptable_nat_net_id), which is available
only after registering iptable_nat_net_ops.
Let's call register_pernet_subsys() before xt_register_template().
[0]:
bpfilter: Loaded bpfilter_umh pid 11702
Started bpfilter
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000013
PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 2 PID: 11879 Comm: iptables-restor Not tainted 6.1.92-99.174.amzn2023.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: Amazon EC2 c6i.4xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 10/16/2017
RIP: 0010:iptable_nat_table_init (net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:87 net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:121) iptable_nat
Code: 10 4c 89 f6 48 89 ef e8 0b 19 bb ff 41 89 c4 85 c0 75 38 41 83 c7 01 49 83 c6 28 41 83 ff 04 75 dc 48 8b 44 24 08 48 8b 0c 24 <48> 89 08 4c 89 ef e8 a2 3b a2 cf 48 83 c4 10 44 89 e0 5b 5d 41 5c
RSP: 0018:ffffbef902843cd0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000013 RBX: ffff9f4b052caa20 RCX: ffff9f4b20988d80
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000064 RDI: ffffffffc04201c0
RBP: ffff9f4b29394000 R08: ffff9f4b07f77258 R09: ffff9f4b07f77240
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff9f4b09635388 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff9f4b1a3c6c00 R14: ffff9f4b20988e20 R15: 0000000000000004
FS: 00007f6284340000(0000) GS:ffff9f51fe280000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000013 CR3: 00000001d10a6005 CR4: 00000000007706e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? show_trace_log_lvl (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:259)
? show_trace_log_lvl (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:259)
? xt_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1259)
? __die_body.cold (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:478 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:420)
? page_fault_oops (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:727)
? exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:40 ./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:75 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1470 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1518)
? asm_exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:570)
? iptable_nat_table_init (net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:87 net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:121) iptable_nat
xt_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1259)
xt_request_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1287)
get_info (net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:965)
? security_capable (security/security.c:809 (discriminator 13))
? ns_capable (kernel/capability.c:376 kernel/capability.c:397)
? do_ipt_get_ctl (net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:1656)
? bpfilter_send_req (net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c:52) bpfilter
nf_getsockopt (net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:116)
ip_getsockopt (net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1827)
__sys_getsockopt (net/socket.c:2327)
__x64_sys_getsockopt (net/socket.c:2342 net/socket.c:2339 net/socket.c:2339)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
RIP: 0033:0x7f62844685ee
Code: 48 8b 0d 45 28 0f 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 49 89 ca b8 37 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 0a c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 15 09
RSP: 002b:00007ffd1f83d638 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000037
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffd1f83d680 RCX: 00007f62844685ee
RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 0000000000000004 R08: 00007ffd1f83d670 R09: 0000558798ffa2a0
R10: 00007ffd1f83d680 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffd1f83e3b2
R13: 00007f6284
---truncated---
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 16:12 UTC
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
fdacd57c79b79a03c7ca88f706ad9fb7b46831c1 , < b98ddb65fa1674b0e6b52de8af9103b63f51b643
(git)
Affected: fdacd57c79b79a03c7ca88f706ad9fb7b46831c1 , < 95590a4929027769af35b153645c0ab6fd22b29b (git) Affected: fdacd57c79b79a03c7ca88f706ad9fb7b46831c1 , < 70014b73d7539fcbb6b4ff5f37368d7241d8e626 (git) Affected: fdacd57c79b79a03c7ca88f706ad9fb7b46831c1 , < 08ed888b69a22647153fe2bec55b7cd0a46102cc (git) Affected: fdacd57c79b79a03c7ca88f706ad9fb7b46831c1 , < 5830aa863981d43560748aa93589c0695191d95d (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.165 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.104 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.45 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.10.4 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.11 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: iptables: Fix null-ptr-deref in iptable_nat_table_init().\n\nWe had a report that iptables-restore sometimes triggered null-ptr-deref\nat boot time. [0]\n\nThe problem is that iptable_nat_table_init() is exposed to user space\nbefore the kernel fully initialises netns.\n\nIn the small race window, a user could call iptable_nat_table_init()\nthat accesses net_generic(net, iptable_nat_net_id), which is available\nonly after registering iptable_nat_net_ops.\n\nLet\u0027s call register_pernet_subsys() before xt_register_template().\n\n[0]:\nbpfilter: Loaded bpfilter_umh pid 11702\nStarted bpfilter\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000013\n PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode\n PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nPREEMPT SMP NOPTI\nCPU: 2 PID: 11879 Comm: iptables-restor Not tainted 6.1.92-99.174.amzn2023.x86_64 #1\nHardware name: Amazon EC2 c6i.4xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 10/16/2017\nRIP: 0010:iptable_nat_table_init (net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:87 net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:121) iptable_nat\nCode: 10 4c 89 f6 48 89 ef e8 0b 19 bb ff 41 89 c4 85 c0 75 38 41 83 c7 01 49 83 c6 28 41 83 ff 04 75 dc 48 8b 44 24 08 48 8b 0c 24 \u003c48\u003e 89 08 4c 89 ef e8 a2 3b a2 cf 48 83 c4 10 44 89 e0 5b 5d 41 5c\nRSP: 0018:ffffbef902843cd0 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: 0000000000000013 RBX: ffff9f4b052caa20 RCX: ffff9f4b20988d80\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000064 RDI: ffffffffc04201c0\nRBP: ffff9f4b29394000 R08: ffff9f4b07f77258 R09: ffff9f4b07f77240\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff9f4b09635388 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: ffff9f4b1a3c6c00 R14: ffff9f4b20988e20 R15: 0000000000000004\nFS: 00007f6284340000(0000) GS:ffff9f51fe280000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000000013 CR3: 00000001d10a6005 CR4: 00000000007706e0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nPKRU: 55555554\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? show_trace_log_lvl (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:259)\n ? show_trace_log_lvl (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:259)\n ? xt_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1259)\n ? __die_body.cold (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:478 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:420)\n ? page_fault_oops (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:727)\n ? exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:40 ./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:75 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1470 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1518)\n ? asm_exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:570)\n ? iptable_nat_table_init (net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:87 net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:121) iptable_nat\n xt_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1259)\n xt_request_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1287)\n get_info (net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:965)\n ? security_capable (security/security.c:809 (discriminator 13))\n ? ns_capable (kernel/capability.c:376 kernel/capability.c:397)\n ? do_ipt_get_ctl (net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:1656)\n ? bpfilter_send_req (net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c:52) bpfilter\n nf_getsockopt (net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:116)\n ip_getsockopt (net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1827)\n __sys_getsockopt (net/socket.c:2327)\n __x64_sys_getsockopt (net/socket.c:2342 net/socket.c:2339 net/socket.c:2339)\n do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81)\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)\nRIP: 0033:0x7f62844685ee\nCode: 48 8b 0d 45 28 0f 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 49 89 ca b8 37 00 00 00 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 0a c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 15 09\nRSP: 002b:00007ffd1f83d638 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000037\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffd1f83d680 RCX: 00007f62844685ee\nRDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000004\nRBP: 0000000000000004 R08: 00007ffd1f83d670 R09: 0000558798ffa2a0\nR10: 00007ffd1f83d680 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffd1f83e3b2\nR13: 00007f6284\n---truncated---"
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"value": "En el kernel de Linux se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: netfilter: iptables: corrige null-ptr-deref en iptable_nat_table_init(). Recibimos un informe de que iptables-restore a veces activaba null-ptr-deref en el momento del arranque. [0] El problema es que iptable_nat_table_init() est\u00e1 expuesto al espacio del usuario antes de que el kernel inicialice completamente netns. En la ventana de ejecuci\u00f3n peque\u00f1a, un usuario podr\u00eda llamar a iptable_nat_table_init() que accede a net_generic(net, iptable_nat_net_id), que est\u00e1 disponible solo despu\u00e9s de registrar iptable_nat_net_ops. Llamemos a Register_pernet_subsys() antes de xt_register_template(). [0]: bpfilter: Bpfilter_umh pid 11702 iniciado bpfilter ERROR: desreferencia del puntero NULL del kernel, direcci\u00f3n: 0000000000000013 PF: acceso de escritura del supervisor en modo kernel PF: error_code(0x0002) - p\u00e1gina no presente PGD 0 P4D 0 PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 2 PID: 11879 Comm: iptables-restor No contaminado 6.1.92-99.174.amzn2023.x86_64 #1 Nombre del hardware: Amazon EC2 c6i.4xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 16/10/2017 RIP: 0010:iptable_nat_table_init (net/ipv4/netfilter /iptable_nat.c:87 net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:121) iptable_nat C\u00f3digo: 10 4c 89 f6 48 89 ef e8 0b 19 bb ff 41 89 c4 85 c0 75 38 41 83 c7 01 49 83 c6 28 41 83 ff 04 75 pa 48 8b 44 24 08 48 8b 0c 24 \u0026lt;48\u0026gt; 89 08 4c 89 ef e8 a2 3b a2 cf 48 83 c4 10 44 89 e0 5b 5d 41 5c RSP: 0018:ffffbef902843cd0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000013RBX: ffff9f4b052caa20 RCX: ffff9f4b20988d80 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000064 RDI: ffffffffc04201c0 RBP: ffff9f4b29394000 R08: ffff9f4b07f77 258 R09: ffff9f4b07f77240 R10: 00000000000000000 R11: ffff9f4b09635388 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff9f4b1a3c6c00 R14: ffff9f4b20988e20 : 0000000000000004 FS: 00007f6284340000(0000) GS:ffff9f51fe280000( 0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000013 CR3: 00000001d10a6005 CR4: 00000000007 706e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 00000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PK RU: 55555554 Seguimiento de llamadas: ? show_trace_log_lvl (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:259)? show_trace_log_lvl (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:259)? xt_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1259)? __die_body.cold (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:478 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:420)? page_fault_oops (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:727)? exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:40 ./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:75 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1470 arch/x86/mm/fault .c:1518)? asm_exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:570)? iptable_nat_table_init (net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:87 net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:121) iptable_nat xt_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1259) xt_request_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1287) get_info (net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:965)? security_capable (seguridad/seguridad.c:809 (discriminador 13))? ns_capable (kernel/capability.c:376 kernel/capability.c:397)? do_ipt_get_ctl (net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:1656)? bpfilter_send_req (net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c:52) bpfilter nf_getsockopt (net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:116) ip_getsockopt (net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1827) __sys_getsockopt (net/socket.c:2327) _sys_getsockopt (neto /socket.c:2342 net/socket.c:2339 net/socket.c:2339) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81) Entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/ x86/entry/entry_64.S:121) RIP: 0033:0x7f62844685ee C\u00f3digo: 48 8b 0d 45 28 0f 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f 3 0f 1e fa 49 89 ca b8 37 00 00 00 0f 05 \u0026lt;48\u0026gt; 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 0a c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 15 09 RSP: 002b:00007ffd1f83d638 EFLAGS: 46 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000037 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffd1f83d680 RCX: 00007f62844685ee RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000004 RBP: 00000000000000004 R08: 00007ffd1f83d670 : 0000558798ffa2a0 R10: 00007ffd1f83d680 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffd1f83e3b2 R13: 00007f6284 ---truncado---"
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"lang": "en",
"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: iptables: Fix null-ptr-deref in iptable_nat_table_init().\n\nWe had a report that iptables-restore sometimes triggered null-ptr-deref\nat boot time. [0]\n\nThe problem is that iptable_nat_table_init() is exposed to user space\nbefore the kernel fully initialises netns.\n\nIn the small race window, a user could call iptable_nat_table_init()\nthat accesses net_generic(net, iptable_nat_net_id), which is available\nonly after registering iptable_nat_net_ops.\n\nLet\u0027s call register_pernet_subsys() before xt_register_template().\n\n[0]:\nbpfilter: Loaded bpfilter_umh pid 11702\nStarted bpfilter\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000013\n PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode\n PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nPREEMPT SMP NOPTI\nCPU: 2 PID: 11879 Comm: iptables-restor Not tainted 6.1.92-99.174.amzn2023.x86_64 #1\nHardware name: Amazon EC2 c6i.4xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 10/16/2017\nRIP: 0010:iptable_nat_table_init (net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:87 net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:121) iptable_nat\nCode: 10 4c 89 f6 48 89 ef e8 0b 19 bb ff 41 89 c4 85 c0 75 38 41 83 c7 01 49 83 c6 28 41 83 ff 04 75 dc 48 8b 44 24 08 48 8b 0c 24 \u003c48\u003e 89 08 4c 89 ef e8 a2 3b a2 cf 48 83 c4 10 44 89 e0 5b 5d 41 5c\nRSP: 0018:ffffbef902843cd0 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: 0000000000000013 RBX: ffff9f4b052caa20 RCX: ffff9f4b20988d80\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000064 RDI: ffffffffc04201c0\nRBP: ffff9f4b29394000 R08: ffff9f4b07f77258 R09: ffff9f4b07f77240\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff9f4b09635388 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: ffff9f4b1a3c6c00 R14: ffff9f4b20988e20 R15: 0000000000000004\nFS: 00007f6284340000(0000) GS:ffff9f51fe280000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000000013 CR3: 00000001d10a6005 CR4: 00000000007706e0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nPKRU: 55555554\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? show_trace_log_lvl (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:259)\n ? show_trace_log_lvl (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:259)\n ? xt_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1259)\n ? __die_body.cold (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:478 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:420)\n ? page_fault_oops (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:727)\n ? exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:40 ./arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h:75 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1470 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1518)\n ? asm_exc_page_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:570)\n ? iptable_nat_table_init (net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:87 net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.c:121) iptable_nat\n xt_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1259)\n xt_request_find_table_lock (net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1287)\n get_info (net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:965)\n ? security_capable (security/security.c:809 (discriminator 13))\n ? ns_capable (kernel/capability.c:376 kernel/capability.c:397)\n ? do_ipt_get_ctl (net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:1656)\n ? bpfilter_send_req (net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c:52) bpfilter\n nf_getsockopt (net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:116)\n ip_getsockopt (net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1827)\n __sys_getsockopt (net/socket.c:2327)\n __x64_sys_getsockopt (net/socket.c:2342 net/socket.c:2339 net/socket.c:2339)\n do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81)\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)\nRIP: 0033:0x7f62844685ee\nCode: 48 8b 0d 45 28 0f 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 49 89 ca b8 37 00 00 00 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 0a c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 15 09\nRSP: 002b:00007ffd1f83d638 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000037\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffd1f83d680 RCX: 00007f62844685ee\nRDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000004\nRBP: 0000000000000004 R08: 00007ffd1f83d670 R09: 0000558798ffa2a0\nR10: 00007ffd1f83d680 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffd1f83e3b2\nR13: 00007f6284\n---truncated---"
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