CVE-2024-47678
Published: Oct 21, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 4cdf507d54525842dfd9f6313fdafba039084046 - < 997ba8889611891f91e8ad83583466aeab6239a3affected 4cdf507d54525842dfd9f6313fdafba039084046 - < 662ec52260cc07b9ae53ecd3925183c29d34288baffected 4cdf507d54525842dfd9f6313fdafba039084046 - < a7722921adb046e3836eb84372241f32584bdb07affected 4cdf507d54525842dfd9f6313fdafba039084046 - < 483397b4ba280813e4a9c161a0a85172ddb43d19affected 4cdf507d54525842dfd9f6313fdafba039084046 - < 8c2bd38b95f75f3d2a08c93e35303e26d480d24e |
Linux | Linux | affected 3.18unaffected 0 - < 3.18unaffected 6.1.113 - <= 6.1.*unaffected 6.6.54 - <= 6.6.*unaffected 6.10.13 - <= 6.10.*+2 more versions |
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