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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50271" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:21:07.563Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:16:06.028Z" 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-2022-50271" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50271.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50271" title: "vhost/vsock: Use kvmalloc/kvfree for larger packets." summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvhost/vsock: Use kvmalloc/kvfree for larger packets.\n\nWhen copying a large file over sftp over vsock, data size is usually 32kB,\nand kmalloc seems to fail to try to allocate 32 32kB regions.\n\n vhost-5837: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x24040c0\n Call Trace:\n [\u003cffffffffb6a0df64\u003e] dump_stack+0x97/0xdb\n [\u003cffffffffb68d6aed\u003e] warn_alloc_failed+0x10f/0x138\n [\u003cffffffffb68d868a\u003e] ? __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x38/0xc8\n [\u003cffffffffb664619f\u003e] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x84c/0x90d\n [\u003cffffffffb6646e56\u003e] alloc_kmem_pages+0x17/0x19\n [\u003cffffffffb6653a26\u003e] kmalloc_order_trace+0x2b/0xdb\n [\u003cffffffffb66682f3\u003e] __kmalloc+0x177/0x1f7\n [\u003cffffffffb66e0d94\u003e] ? copy_from_iter+0x8d/0x31d\n [\u003cffffffffc0689ab7\u003e] vhost_vsock_handle_tx_kick+0x1fa/0x301 [vhost_vsock]\n [\u003cffffffffc06828d9\u003e] vhost_worker+0xf7/0x157 [vhost]\n [\u003cffffffffb683ddce\u003e] kthread+0xfd/0x105\n [\u003cffffffffc06827e2\u003e] ? vhost_dev_set_owner+0x22e/0x22e [vhost]\n [\u003cffffffffb683dcd1\u003e] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xf3/0xf3\n [\u003cffffffffb6eb332e\u003e] ret_from_fork+0x4e/0x80\n [\u003cffffffffb683dcd1\u003e] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xf3/0xf3\n\nWork around by doing kvmalloc instead." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"433fc58e6bf2c8bd97e57153ed28e64fd78207b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d720c3f0a03e97867deab7e480ba3d3e19837ba"},{"version":"433fc58e6bf2c8bd97e57153ed28e64fd78207b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7aac8c63f604e6a6a46560c0f0188cd0332cf320"},{"version":"433fc58e6bf2c8bd97e57153ed28e64fd78207b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e6d0152c95108651f1880c1ddfab47cb9e3e62d0"},{"version":"433fc58e6bf2c8bd97e57153ed28e64fd78207b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4a5905fd2ef841cd61e969ea692c213c2e5c1f7"},{"version":"433fc58e6bf2c8bd97e57153ed28e64fd78207b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e28a4e7f0296824c61a81e7fd54ab48bad3e75ad"},{"version":"433fc58e6bf2c8bd97e57153ed28e64fd78207b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a99fc6d818161d6f1ff3307de8bf5237f6cc34d8"},{"version":"433fc58e6bf2c8bd97e57153ed28e64fd78207b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36c9f340c60413e28f980c0224c4e9d35851526b"},{"version":"433fc58e6bf2c8bd97e57153ed28e64fd78207b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e3f72931fc47bb81686020cc643cde5d9cd0bb8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.8"},{"version":"4.14.296","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.262","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.220","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.150","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.19.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.19.*"},{"version":"6.0.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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