# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49911"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:10:53.631Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:09:05.818Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49911"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49911.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49911"
title: "netfilter: ipset: enforce documented limit to prevent allocating huge memory"
summary: "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."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ccf0a4b7fc688561428290265e4effde41446668","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"42d20d5e24575c9afa2d66d9a51e7386db9514f5"},{"version":"ccf0a4b7fc688561428290265e4effde41446668","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a37ef32fe5956fe9248df68f6a61997845ba047e"},{"version":"ccf0a4b7fc688561428290265e4effde41446668","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"510841da1fcc16f702440ab58ef0b4d82a9056b7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.15.78","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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