CVE-2024-27013 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.34%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 1
Latest updateSep 18
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tun: limit printing rate when illegal packet received by tun dev
vhost_worker will call tun call backs to receive packets. If too many
illegal packets arrives, tun_do_read will keep dumping packet contents.
When console is enabled, it will costs much more cpu time to dump
packet and soft lockup will be detected.
net_ratelimit mechanism can be used to limit the dumping rate.
PID: 33036 TASK: ffff949da6f20000 CPU: 23 COMMAND: …
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages3 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxef3db4a5954281bc1ea49a4739c88eaea091dc71 — 68459b8e3ee554ce71878af9eb69659b9462c588+8
Also affects: Fedora 38, 39, 40
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-hm85-cqwx-6v52: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tun: limit printing rate when illegal packet received by tun dev
vhost_worker wi↗2024-05-01
OSV▶
CVE-2024-27013: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tun: limit printing rate when illegal packet received by tun dev vhost_worker will↗2024-05-01
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