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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 17, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-42291

CVE-2024-42291

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ice: Add a per-VF limit on number of FDIR filters

While the iavf driver adds a s/w limit (128) on the number of FDIR filters that the VF can request, a malicious VF driver can request more than that and exhaust the resources for other VFs.

Add a similar limit in ice.

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