{"cve":"CVE-2026-98234","nvd":{"published":"2026-10-06T09:18:11.033","modified":"2026-10-19T10:18:24.220","status":"Received","description":"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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06d2a101e89063cb0b9b459104db48bdfb0a797d","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1731ff1d20489afe4cd01b7d16d37f324746ac54","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cef2588c995722a901368def30befeef9ae55c6","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35fd423a5c5132c6f4321f6c4f0a7b4b90af830c","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7adfd0a42174b85c6bd678858ecd6674f403f336"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:57:46.668721662+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-98234","score":0.00177,"percentile":0.07174,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}