CVE-2026-98234

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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.

Severity

Not scored

CVSS score

Not available

Vulnerability status

Received

Source identifier

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2026-10-06 09:18:11.033000

Last modified

2026-10-19 10:18:24.220000

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  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "published": "2026-10-06T09:18:11.033",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-19T10:18:24.220",
  "vulnStatus": "Received",
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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: hhf: cap hh_flows_limit at change time\n\nhhf_change() stores TCA_HHF_HH_FLOWS_LIMIT with no upper bound. A huge\nhh_flows_limit lets each new heavy-hitter flow pass the\nhh_flows_current_cnt check in alloc_new_hh() and forces a fixed-size\nkzalloc(GFP_ATOMIC) per flow under spoofed traffic, for unbounded memory\ngrowth.\n\nBound the attribute with NLA_POLICY_MAX() at 2*HH_FLOWS_CNT (the\nhhf_init() default) and report the rejected value via extack. The\ndeprecated nested parse is kept: legacy tc does not set NLA_F_NESTED on\nTCA_OPTIONS. Configs relying on hh_limit above the default were relying\non unbounded, unsafe behaviour and are not supported going forward.\n\nhhf_init() also ran hhf_change() before setting the default\nhh_flows_limit, so a user-supplied hh_limit at add time was clobbered\nback to 2048. Set the default before hhf_change() so the configured\nvalue sticks.\n\nThis is a follow-up to commit eb56a495f59b (\"net/sched: hhf: clamp\nquantum in change and init paths\"), which bounded the quantum of the\nsame qdisc; the hh_flows_limit bound is the remaining unbounded knob of\nthat series' scope.\n\nConditions to recreate the bug: CAP_NET_ADMIN in a user namespace;\ntc qdisc change dev X root hhf hh_limit 4294967295 succeeds and the\nvalue is echoed by tc qdisc show, unbounding heavy-hitter flow\nallocations; also tc qdisc add dev X root hhf hh_limit 500 stores 2048\ninstead of 500."
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