netfilter: nft_limit: reject configurations that cause integer overflow (Linux Linux)

CVE-2024-26668
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.24 % · percentile 15 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_limit: reject configurations that cause integer overflow Reject bogus configs where internal token counter wraps around. This only occurs with very very large requests, such as 17gbyte/s. Its better to reject this rather than having incorrect ratelimit.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected d2168e849ebf617b2b7feae44c0c0baf739cb610 < 79d4efd75e7dbecd855a3b8a63e65f7265f466e1 ; affected d2168e849ebf617b2b7feae44c0c0baf739cb610 < bc6e242bb74e2ae616bfd2b250682b738e781c9b ; affected d2168e849ebf617b2b7feae44c0c0baf739cb610 < 9882495d02ecc490604f747437a40626dc9160d0 ; affected d2168e849ebf617b2b7feae44c0c0baf739cb610 < 00c2c29aa36d1d1827c51a3720e9f893a22c7c6a ; affected d2168e849ebf617b2b7feae44c0c0baf739cb610 < c9d9eb9c53d37cdebbad56b91e40baf42d5a97aa
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.3 ; unaffected 0 < 4.3 ; unaffected 5.15.149 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.76 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.15 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.7.3 ≤ 6.7.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD