Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-50716.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-50716
Upstream
Published
2024-10-21T12:15:04Z
Modified
2026-04-01T05:17:35.457712Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
CVE-2024-47678 affecting package kernel 5.15.200.1-1
Details

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 (icmpglobalallow())

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) icmpglobalallow() 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) icmpglobalconsume() 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.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:2 / kernel

Package

Name
kernel
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last affected
5.15.200.1-1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-50716.json"