CVE-2021-47010

HIGH

Linux Kernel 4.15-4.19.191 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via TCP Congestion Control Netns Leak

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: Only allow init netns to set default tcp cong to a restricted algo tcp_set_default_congestion_control() is netns-safe in that it writes to &net->ipv4.tcp_congestion_control, but it also sets ca->flags |= TCP_CONG_NON_RESTRICTED which is not namespaced. This has the unintended side-effect of changing the global net.ipv4.tcp_allowed_congestion_control sysctl, despite the fact that it is read-only: 97684f0970f6 ("net: Make tcp_allowed_congestion_control readonly in non-init netns") Resolve this netns "leak" by only allowing the init netns to set the default algorithm to one that is restricted. This restriction could be removed if tcp_allowed_congestion_control were namespace-ified in the future. This bug was uncovered with https://github.com/JonathonReinhart/linux-netns-sysctl-verify

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 17.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (15)
Linux/Linux < 4.15
Linux/Linux 4.15
Linux/Linux 4.19.191 - 4.19.*
Linux/Linux 5.10.37 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.11.21 - 5.11.*
Linux/Linux 5.12.4 - 5.12.*
Linux/Linux 5.13
Linux/Linux 5.4.119 - 5.4.*
Linux/Linux 6670e152447732ba90626f36dfc015a13fbf150e - 6c1ea8bee75df8fe2184a50fcd0f70bf82986f42
Linux/Linux 6670e152447732ba90626f36dfc015a13fbf150e - 8d432592f30fcc34ef5a10aac4887b4897884493
... and 5 more
Published Feb 28, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026