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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 2, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

netfilter: nft_limit: reject configurations that cause integer overflow

CVE-2024-26668

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.

Affected products

186

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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