CVE-2024-46828 sched: sch_cake: fix bulk flow accounting logic for host fairness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: schcake: fix bulk flow accounting logic for host fairness In schcake, we keep track of the count of active bulk flows per host, when running in dst/src host fairness mode, which is used as the round-robin weight when...

CVE-2024-46828 sched: sch_cake: fix bulk flow accounting logic for host fairness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: schcake: fix bulk flow accounting logic for host fairness In schcake, we keep track of the count of active bulk flows per host, when running in dst/src host fairness mode, which is used as the round-robin weight when...

CVE-2024-46828

CVE-2024-46828 affects the Linux kernel schedulers, specifically the cake qdisc’s host-fairness logic. A hash-collision interaction could trigger an unintended decrement of per-host bulk-flow counters when a flow’s state changes, and when host fairness is enabled this could wrap a per-host counte...

CVE-2024-46828: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched: schcake: fix bulk flow accounting logic for host fairness In schcake, we keep track of the count of active bulk flows per host, when running in dst/src host fairness mode, which is used as the round-robin weight when...

Revert "sched/fair: Make sure to try to detach at least one movable task"

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SUSE CVE-2024-42245

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "sched/fair: Make sure to try to detach at least one movable task" This reverts commit b0defa7ae03ecf91b8bfd10ede430cff12fcbd06. b0defa7ae03ec changed the load balancing logic to ignore env.maxloop if all tasks examined to...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47209

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/fair: Prevent dead task groups from regaining cfsrq's Kevin is reporting crashes which point to a use-after-free of a cfsrq in updateblockedaverages. Initial debugging revealed that we've live cfsrq's onlist=1 in an about t...

Issue with Decimal Conversion in Shell Protocol

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The identified issue within the convertDecimals function in the Shell Protocol could lead to a loss of value due to decimal truncation during token conversions. This situation is particularly critical in the context of Shell Protocol's operations, which...

LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear

Claude Anthropics LLM was given this prompt: Please summarize the themes and arguments of Bruce Schneiers book Beyond Fear. Im particularly interested in a taxonomy of his ethical arguments--please expand on that. Then lay out the most salient criticisms of the book. Claudes reply: Heres a brief...

Unsecure and predictable random number generation in closeDraw.winningRandomNumber_()

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Unsecure and predictable random number generation in closeDraw.winningRandomNumber can lead to external influence by malicious attackers. Leading to undermining of the fairness and security and unpredictability of the draw function. Both the timestamp an...

The 'Nouns Fork' is considered unfair towards contributors, given they are not awarded any new tokens.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The 'Nouns Fork' is considered unfair towards contributors, given they are not awarded any new tokens. Proof of Concept The Nouns Fork mechanism allows members of the minority in the Nouns DAO to exit to a new forked Nouns DAO, but the current approach m...

FRONT-RUNNING SUSCEPTIBILITY IN ADDBID()

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Auction.addBid is susceptible to front-running attacks. This vulnerability presents a significant risk as participants with adequate knowledge or skill could manipulate Ethereum transaction ordering to gain undue advantage, potentially compromising the...

Fairness should be denominated in mintedVotingPower rather than totalVotingPower

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Rage quitter receives too little. Proof of Concept The rage quitter receives a share votingPowerByTokenIdtokenId 1e18 / totalVotingPower of each token balance. However the sum of votingPowerByTokenIdtokenId over all tokenId, i.e. mintedVotingPower, may b...

Upgraded Q -> 2 from #345 [1678798679676]

Judge has assessed an item in Issue 345 as 2 risk. The relevant finding follows: Issue 2 - Undermining the fairness of the protocol in swapSource and possibilities for stealing a jackpot --- The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: All reactions...

If random number is too low, the lottery not completely random

Summary Random numbers below a certain limit will always return at least one rightmost bit, while numbers above this limit will return random bits. Explanation: 1. The winning ticket is generated based on an array of numbers generated by module randomNumber to selectionMax-n.:...

40% of online shops tricking users with “dark patterns”

The European Commission has been looking at retail websites to see if they're misleading consumers with "dark patterns". Spoiler: Yes, they are. The Commission, along with the national consumer protection authorities of 23 EU member states, plus Norway and Iceland, have released the results of...

Raffle is fair only if tokenRange is a power of 2.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Based on the contract logic, the raffle works by sampling a value $ x \in \mathbbZ | 0 \leq x \lt 2^256 $ aka uint256 from a uniform distribution provided by Chainlink VRF, then applying modulo tokenRange, generating a new value $ y \in \mathbbZ | 0 \leq...

The raffle could be slightly unfair as the owner of NFT ID which is closer to drawingTokenStartId could have more chance to win

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The raffle could be slightly unfair as the owner of NFT ID which is closer to drawingTokenStartId could have more chance to win. Proof of Concept As written in , "We want to raffle away a single NFT token based off of another NFT collection or drawingTok...

CoreCollection: Starting index is pseudo-randomly generated, allowing for gameable NFT launches

Lines of code Vulnerability details Details & Impact In Paradigm’s article “A Guide to Designing Effective NFT Launches”, one of the desirable properties of an NFT launch is unexploitable fairness: Launches must have true randomness to ensure that predatory users cannot snipe the rarest items at...

Incentives for different pools should differ by a large factor

Handle tensors Vulnerability details I'm adding this as an issue because I didn't see it mentioned anywhere in the codebase, and I think its a fair point that relates to how the protocol gives out rewards to users. As I understand , the point of staking is to provide users with additional...