cve-2022-49911
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-01 14:10
Modified
2025-05-04 08:48
Severity ?
Summary
netfilter: ipset: enforce documented limit to prevent allocating huge memory
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: ipset: enforce documented limit to prevent allocating huge memory\n\nDaniel Xu reported that the hash:net,iface type of the ipset subsystem does\nnot limit adding the same network with different interfaces to a set, which\ncan lead to huge memory usage or allocation failure.\n\nThe quick reproducer is\n\n$ ipset create ACL.IN.ALL_PERMIT hash:net,iface hashsize 1048576 timeout 0\n$ 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\n\nThe backtrace when vmalloc fails:\n\n        [Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] ipset: vmalloc error: size 1073741848, exceeds total pages\n        \u003c...\u003e\n        [Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022] Call Trace:\n        [Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n        [Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022]  dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x60\n        [Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022]  warn_alloc+0x155/0x180\n        [Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022]  __vmalloc_node_range+0x72a/0x760\n        [Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022]  ? hash_netiface4_add+0x7c0/0xb20\n        [Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022]  ? __kmalloc_large_node+0x4a/0x90\n        [Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022]  kvmalloc_node+0xa6/0xd0\n        [Tue Oct 25 00:13:08 2022]  ? hash_netiface4_resize+0x99/0x710\n        \u003c...\u003e\n\nThe fix is to enforce the limit documented in the ipset(8) manpage:\n\n\u003e  The internal restriction of the hash:net,iface set type is that the same\n\u003e  network prefix cannot be stored with more than 64 different interfaces\n\u003e  in a single set."
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