CVE-2024-26668

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Publication date:

02/04/2024

Last modified:

17/03/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.3 (including)	5.15.149 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.76 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.15 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.7.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc1::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2024-26668

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools