CVE-2024-49974

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via Unbounded Async COPY Operations

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: Limit the number of concurrent async COPY operations Nothing appears to limit the number of concurrent async COPY operations that clients can start. In addition, AFAICT each async COPY can copy an unlimited number of 4MB chunks, so can run for a long time. Thus IMO async COPY can become a DoS vector. Add a restriction mechanism that bounds the number of concurrent background COPY operations. Start simple and try to be fair -- this patch implements a per-namespace limit. An async COPY request that occurs while this limit is exceeded gets NFS4ERR_DELAY. The requesting client can choose to send the request again after a delay or fall back to a traditional read/write style copy. If there is need to make the mechanism more sophisticated, we can visit that in future patches.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 19.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (23)
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.10.231linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.174linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.119linux
linux/Kernel 6.11.0 - 6.11.3linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.63linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.10.14linux
Linux/Linux < 4.20
Linux/Linux 4.20
Linux/Linux 5.10.231 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.174 - 5.15.*
... and 13 more
Published Oct 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026