CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-49110

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.59%

45th percentile - higher than 45% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the netfilter conntrack module has an issue with garbage collection autotuning. The change in gc behavior causes netlink event overflows when the hash table is large. The fix adjusts the gc schedule to avoid overflows.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes potential loss of netlink events, which could impact monitoring and incident response on systems with large conntrack tables.

Recommendation

It is recommended to apply a Linux kernel update that includes the fix for this vulnerability. Also, monitor the load on systems with large conntrack tables.

Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

See all
Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: conntrack: revisit gc autotuning as of commit 4608fdfc07e1 ("netfilter: conntrack: collect all entries in one cycle") conntrack gc was changed to run every 2 minutes. On systems where conntrack hash table is set to large value, most evictions happen from gc worker rather than the packet path due to hash table distribution. This causes netlink event overflows when events are collected. This change collects average expiry of scanned entries and reschedules to the average remaining value, within 1 to 60 second interval. To avoid event overflows, reschedule after each bucket and add a limit for both run time and number of evictions per run. If more entries have to be evicted, reschedule and restart 1 jiffy into the future.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS