CVE-2024-50271

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.14-6.1.117, 6.2-6.6.61, 6.7-6.11.8 - Resource Exhaustion via Signal Delivery

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: signal: restore the override_rlimit logic Prior to commit d64696905554 ("Reimplement RLIMIT_SIGPENDING on top of ucounts") UCOUNT_RLIMIT_SIGPENDING rlimit was not enforced for a class of signals. However now it's enforced unconditionally, even if override_rlimit is set. This behavior change caused production issues. For example, if the limit is reached and a process receives a SIGSEGV signal, sigqueue_alloc fails to allocate the necessary resources for the signal delivery, preventing the signal from being delivered with siginfo. This prevents the process from correctly identifying the fault address and handling the error. From the user-space perspective, applications are unaware that the limit has been reached and that the siginfo is effectively 'corrupted'. This can lead to unpredictable behavior and crashes, as we observed with java applications. Fix this by passing override_rlimit into inc_rlimit_get_ucounts() and skip the comparison to max there if override_rlimit is set. This effectively restores the old behavior.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 14.0%
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

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (15)
linux/Kernel 5.14.0 - 6.1.117linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.61linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.11.8linux
Linux/Linux < 5.14
Linux/Linux 5.14
Linux/Linux 6.1.117 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.11.8 - 6.11.*
Linux/Linux 6.12
Linux/Linux 6.6.61 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux d64696905554e919321e31afc210606653b8f6a4 - 012f4d5d25e9ef92ee129bd5aa7aa60f692681e1
... and 5 more
Published Nov 19, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026