Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: hhf: cap hh_flows_limit at change time
hhf_change() stores TCA_HHF_HH_FLOWS_LIMIT with no upper bound. A huge
hh_flows_limit lets each new heavy-hitter flow pass the
hh_flows_current_cnt check in alloc_new_hh() and forces a fixed-size
kzalloc(GFP_ATOMIC) per flow under spoofed traffic, for unbounded memory
growth.
Bound the attribute with NLA_POLICY_MAX() at 2*HH_FLOWS_CNT (the
hhf_init() default) and report the rejected value via extack. The
deprecated nested parse is kept: legacy tc does not set NLA_F_NESTED on
TCA_OPTIONS. Configs relying on hh_limit above the default were relying
on unbounded, unsafe behaviour and are not supported going forward.
hhf_init() also ran hhf_change() before setting the default
hh_flows_limit, so a user-supplied hh_limit at add time was clobbered
back to 2048. Set the default before hhf_change() so the configured
value sticks.
This is a follow-up to commit eb56a495f59b ("net/sched: hhf: clamp
quantum in change and init paths"), which bounded the quantum of the
same qdisc; the hh_flows_limit bound is the remaining unbounded knob of
that series' scope.
Conditions to recreate the bug: CAP_NET_ADMIN in a user namespace;
tc qdisc change dev X root hhf hh_limit 4294967295 succeeds and the
value is echoed by tc qdisc show, unbounding heavy-hitter flow
allocations; also tc qdisc add dev X root hhf hh_limit 500 stores 2048
instead of 500.
net/sched: hhf: cap hh_flows_limit at change time
hhf_change() stores TCA_HHF_HH_FLOWS_LIMIT with no upper bound. A huge
hh_flows_limit lets each new heavy-hitter flow pass the
hh_flows_current_cnt check in alloc_new_hh() and forces a fixed-size
kzalloc(GFP_ATOMIC) per flow under spoofed traffic, for unbounded memory
growth.
Bound the attribute with NLA_POLICY_MAX() at 2*HH_FLOWS_CNT (the
hhf_init() default) and report the rejected value via extack. The
deprecated nested parse is kept: legacy tc does not set NLA_F_NESTED on
TCA_OPTIONS. Configs relying on hh_limit above the default were relying
on unbounded, unsafe behaviour and are not supported going forward.
hhf_init() also ran hhf_change() before setting the default
hh_flows_limit, so a user-supplied hh_limit at add time was clobbered
back to 2048. Set the default before hhf_change() so the configured
value sticks.
This is a follow-up to commit eb56a495f59b ("net/sched: hhf: clamp
quantum in change and init paths"), which bounded the quantum of the
same qdisc; the hh_flows_limit bound is the remaining unbounded knob of
that series' scope.
Conditions to recreate the bug: CAP_NET_ADMIN in a user namespace;
tc qdisc change dev X root hhf hh_limit 4294967295 succeeds and the
value is echoed by tc qdisc show, unbounding heavy-hitter flow
allocations; also tc qdisc add dev X root hhf hh_limit 500 stores 2048
instead of 500.
Published:
2026-10-06
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| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| Description | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: hhf: cap hh_flows_limit at change time hhf_change() stores TCA_HHF_HH_FLOWS_LIMIT with no upper bound. A huge hh_flows_limit lets each new heavy-hitter flow pass the hh_flows_current_cnt check in alloc_new_hh() and forces a fixed-size kzalloc(GFP_ATOMIC) per flow under spoofed traffic, for unbounded memory growth. Bound the attribute with NLA_POLICY_MAX() at 2*HH_FLOWS_CNT (the hhf_init() default) and report the rejected value via extack. The deprecated nested parse is kept: legacy tc does not set NLA_F_NESTED on TCA_OPTIONS. Configs relying on hh_limit above the default were relying on unbounded, unsafe behaviour and are not supported going forward. hhf_init() also ran hhf_change() before setting the default hh_flows_limit, so a user-supplied hh_limit at add time was clobbered back to 2048. Set the default before hhf_change() so the configured value sticks. This is a follow-up to commit eb56a495f59b ("net/sched: hhf: clamp quantum in change and init paths"), which bounded the quantum of the same qdisc; the hh_flows_limit bound is the remaining unbounded knob of that series' scope. Conditions to recreate the bug: CAP_NET_ADMIN in a user namespace; tc qdisc change dev X root hhf hh_limit 4294967295 succeeds and the value is echoed by tc qdisc show, unbounding heavy-hitter flow allocations; also tc qdisc add dev X root hhf hh_limit 500 stores 2048 instead of 500. | |
| Title | net/sched: hhf: cap hh_flows_limit at change time | |
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Linux
Linux linux Kernel |
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Linux
Linux linux Kernel |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-06T08:45:07.215Z
Reserved: 2026-09-25T10:25:14.329Z
Link: CVE-2026-98234
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-06T09:18:11.033
Modified: 2026-10-06T09:18:11.033
Link: CVE-2026-98234
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