CVE-2024-26668

netfilter: nft_limit: reject configurations that cause integer overflow

published April 2, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00241 · 14.4th percentile
Published
2024-04-02T06:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 APR 06:43Z
    netfilter: nft_limit: reject configurations that cause integer overflow
    cvelistv5