CVE-2024-42291: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: Add a per-VF limit on number of FDIR filters While the iavf driver adds a s/w limit (128) on the number of FDIR filters that the VF can request, a malicious VF driver can request more than that and exhaust the resources for other VFs. Add a similar limit in ice.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.13, before 5.15.172 (fixed in 5.15.172); from 5.16, before 6.1.103 (fixed in 6.1.103); from 6.2, before 6.6.44 (fixed in 6.6.44); from 6.7, before 6.10.3 (fixed in 6.10.3)

Published 2024-08-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.