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Red Hat: CVE-2024-56783: kernel: netfilter: nft_socket: remove WARN_ON_ONCE on maximum cgroup level (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 8, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

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

netfilter: nft_socket: remove WARN_ON_ONCE on maximum cgroup level

cgroup maximum depth is INT_MAX by default, there is a cgroup toggle to
restrict this maximum depth to a more reasonable value not to harm
performance. Remove unnecessary WARN_ON_ONCE which is reachable from
userspace.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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