vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49911): linux vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | May 1, 2025 | May 8, 2025 | Oct 24, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: ipset: enforce documented limit to prevent allocating huge memory
Daniel Xu reported that the hash:net,iface type of the ipset subsystem does
not limit adding the same network with different interfaces to a set, which
can lead to huge memory usage or allocation failure.
The quick reproducer is
$ ipset create ACL.IN.ALL_PERMIT hash:net,iface hashsize 1048576 timeout 0
$ for i in $(seq 0 100); do /sbin/ipset add ACL.IN.ALL_PERMIT 0.0.0.0/0,kaf_$i timeout 0 -exist; done
The backtrace when vmalloc fails:
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] ipset: vmalloc error: size 1073741848, exceeds total pages
<...>
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] Call Trace:
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] <TASK>
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x60
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] warn_alloc+0x155/0x180
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] __vmalloc_node_range+0x72a/0x760
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] ? hash_netiface4_add+0x7c0/0xb20
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] ? __kmalloc_large_node+0x4a/0x90
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] kvmalloc_node+0xa6/0xd0
[Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] ? hash_netiface4_resize+0x99/0x710
<...>
The fix is to enforce the limit documented in the ipset(8) manpage:
> The internal restriction of the hash:net,iface set type is that the same
> network prefix cannot be stored with more than 64 different interfaces
> in a single set.
Solutions
References
- CVE-2022-49911
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-49911
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/510841da1fcc16f702440ab58ef0b4d82a9056b7
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42d20d5e24575c9afa2d66d9a51e7386db9514f5
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/510841da1fcc16f702440ab58ef0b4d82a9056b7
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a37ef32fe5956fe9248df68f6a61997845ba047e
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49911
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