CVE-2024-37356EPSS p14.9%
CVE-2024-37356CVE-2024-37356
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: Fix shift-out-of-bounds in dctcp_update_alpha().
In dctcp_update_alpha(), we use a module parameter dctcp_shift_g
as follows:
alpha -= min_not_zero(alpha, alpha >> dctcp_shift_g);
...
delivered_ce <<= (10 - dctcp_shift_g);
It seems syzkaller started fuzzing module parameters and triggered
shift-out-of-bounds [0] by setting 100 to dctcp_shift_g:
memcpy((void*)0x20000080,
"/sys/module/tcp_dctcp/parameters/dctcp_shift_g\000", 47);
res = syscall(__NR_openat, /*fd=*/0xffffffffffffff9cul, /*file=*/0x20000080ul,
/*flags=*/2ul, /*mode=*/0ul);
memcpy((void*)0x20000000, "100\000", 4);
syscall(__NR_write, /*fd=*/r[0], /*val=*/0x20000000ul, /*len=*/4ul);
Let's limit the max value of dctcp_shift_g by param_set_uint_minmax().
With this patch:
# echo 10 > /sys/module/tcp_dctcp/parameters/dctcp_shift_g
# cat /sys/module/tcp_dctcp/parameters/dctcp_shift_g
10
# echo 11 > /sys/m
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.25% probability of exploitation · percentile 14.9% · 2026-10-17T12:00:28Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-15 |