CVE-2024-26668

netfilter: nft_limit: reject configurations that cause integer overflow

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 2, 2024
Updated: May 11, 2026
Reserved: Feb 19, 2024

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	d2168e849ebf617b2b7feae44c0c0baf739cb610 to before 79d4efd75e7dbecd855a3b8a63e65f7265f466e1Affected d2168e849ebf617b2b7feae44c0c0baf739cb610 to before bc6e242bb74e2ae616bfd2b250682b738e781c9bAffected d2168e849ebf617b2b7feae44c0c0baf739cb610 to before 9882495d02ecc490604f747437a40626dc9160d0Affected d2168e849ebf617b2b7feae44c0c0baf739cb610 to before 00c2c29aa36d1d1827c51a3720e9f893a22c7c6aAffected d2168e849ebf617b2b7feae44c0c0baf739cb610 to before c9d9eb9c53d37cdebbad56b91e40baf42d5a97aaAffected
LinuxLinux	4.3Affected before 4.3Not affected 5.15.149 through 5.15.Not affected 6.1.76 through 6.1.Not affected 6.6.15 through 6.6.Not affected 6.7.3 through 6.7.Not affected 6.8 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

d2168e849ebf617b2b7feae44c0c0baf739cb610 to before 79d4efd75e7dbecd855a3b8a63e65f7265f466e1Affected
d2168e849ebf617b2b7feae44c0c0baf739cb610 to before bc6e242bb74e2ae616bfd2b250682b738e781c9bAffected
d2168e849ebf617b2b7feae44c0c0baf739cb610 to before 9882495d02ecc490604f747437a40626dc9160d0Affected
d2168e849ebf617b2b7feae44c0c0baf739cb610 to before 00c2c29aa36d1d1827c51a3720e9f893a22c7c6aAffected
d2168e849ebf617b2b7feae44c0c0baf739cb610 to before c9d9eb9c53d37cdebbad56b91e40baf42d5a97aaAffected

LinuxLinux

4.3Affected
before 4.3Not affected
5.15.149 through 5.15.*Not affected
6.1.76 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.6.15 through 6.6.*Not affected
6.7.3 through 6.7.*Not affected
6.8 and laterNot affected

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