CVE-2022-49110

HIGH

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via Conntrack GC Autotuning

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0059
EPSS Percentile 44.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (22)
linux/Kernel 5.14.0 - 5.15.34linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.16.20linux
linux/Kernel 5.17.0 - 5.17.3linux
Linux/Linux < 5.14
Linux/Linux 4.19.206 - 4.20
Linux/Linux 4608fdfc07e116f9fc0895beb40abad7cdb5ee3d - 2cfadb761d3d0219412fd8150faea60c7e863833
Linux/Linux 4608fdfc07e116f9fc0895beb40abad7cdb5ee3d - 58d52743ae85d28c9335c6034d6ce350b8689951
Linux/Linux 4608fdfc07e116f9fc0895beb40abad7cdb5ee3d - 592e57591826f3d09c28d755a39ea8e9d13705ad
Linux/Linux 4608fdfc07e116f9fc0895beb40abad7cdb5ee3d - 7cd361d5e6d986c0d4cafb9ceaa803359048ae15
Linux/Linux 5.10.62 - 5.11
... and 12 more
Published Feb 26, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026