CVE-2024-26668
kernel: netfilter: nft_limit: reject configurations that cause integer overflow
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · April 2, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound