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
2026-04-01T05:17:35Z
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 (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.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:2 / kernel

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown 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"