CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-47678
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-10-21
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.4 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-203
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
icmp: change the order of rate limits
ICMP messages are ratelimited :
After the blamed commits, the two rate limiters are applied in this order:
1) host wide ratelimit (icmp_global_allow())
2) Per destination ratelimit (inetpeer based)
In order to avoid side-channels attacks, we need to apply
the per destination check first.
This patch makes the following change :
1) icmp_global_allow() checks if the host wide limit is reached.
But credits are not yet consumed. This is deferred to 3)
2) The per destination limit is checked/updated.
This might add a new node in inetpeer tree.
3) icmp_global_consume() consumes tokens if prior operations succeeded.
This means that host wide ratelimit is still effective
in keeping inetpeer tree small even under DDOS.
As a bonus, I removed icmp_global.lock as the fast path
can use a lock-free operation.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.18 < 6.1.113)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.54)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.10.13)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.11 < 6.11.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/483397b4ba280813e4a9c161a0a85172ddb43d19 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/662ec52260cc07b9ae53ecd3925183c29d34288b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c2bd38b95f75f3d2a08c93e35303e26d480d24e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/997ba8889611891f91e8ad83583466aeab6239a3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7722921adb046e3836eb84372241f32584bdb07 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html lists.debian.org