Information Exposure Affecting kernel-devel-azure package, versions <6.4.0-150600.8.23.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELDEVELAZURE-8631051
  • published16 Jan 2025
  • disclosed15 Jan 2025

Introduced: 15 Jan 2025

NewCVE-2024-47678  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-203  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-devel-azure to version 6.4.0-150600.8.23.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-devel-azure package and not the kernel-devel-azure package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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