vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2024-41007: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/15/2024
Added
08/14/2024
Modified
01/30/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tcp: avoid too many retransmit packets

If a TCP socket is using TCP_USER_TIMEOUT, and the other peer
retracted its window to zero, tcp_retransmit_timer() can
retransmit a packet every two jiffies (2 ms for HZ=1000),
for about 4 minutes after TCP_USER_TIMEOUT has 'expired'.

The fix is to make sure tcp_rtx_probe0_timed_out() takes
icsk->icsk_user_timeout into account.

Before blamed commit, the socket would not timeout after
icsk->icsk_user_timeout, but would use standard exponential
backoff for the retransmits.

Also worth noting that before commit e89688e3e978 ("net: tcp:
fix unexcepted socket die when snd_wnd is 0"), the issue
would last 2 minutes instead of 4.

Solution(s)

debian-upgrade-linuxdebian-upgrade-linux-6-1
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