Questions about CVE-2024-11187

Petr Špaček pspacek at isc.org
Tue Mar 4 09:14:10 UTC 2025


On 04. 03. 25 9:53, Laszlo Szollosi wrote:
> Many thanks for your response.
> By mitigation, I mean we have seen an increase in resource utilization, 
> but it would have been much worse without the 'minimal-responses' 
> setting (reduced impact).
> By prevention, I mean we would not have had the impact at all.
> By a spike, I mean the CPU utilization jumps, and then falls. That is 
> not what we experienced. We had the resource consumption continuously 
> for 3 hours on our first incident.

Oh, that's very important 'detail'. If it were CVE-2024-11187 it would 
have to be correlated to increased traffic. If the resource utilization 
lasted so long without corresponding high traffic it is probably a 
different bug.

-- 
Petr Špaček
Internet Systems Consortium


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