CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-47010

7.8 HIGH Published 2024-02-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-02-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: Only allow init netns to set default tcp cong to a restricted algo tcp_set_default_congestion_control() is netns-safe in that it writes to &net->ipv4.tcp_congestion_control, but it also sets ca->flags |= TCP_CONG_NON_RESTRICTED which is not namespaced. This has the unintended side-effect of changing the global net.ipv4.tcp_allowed_congestion_control sysctl, despite the fact that it is read-only: 97684f0970f6 ("net: Make tcp_allowed_congestion_control readonly in non-init netns") Resolve this netns "leak" by only allowing the init netns to set the default algorithm to one that is restricted. This restriction could be removed if tcp_allowed_congestion_control were namespace-ified in the future. This bug was uncovered with https://github.com/JonathonReinhart/linux-netns-sysctl-verify

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.191) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.119) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.37) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.11.21) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.12 < 5.12.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References