CVE-2022-49153 (GCVE-0-2022-49153)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 01:55 – Updated: 2025-10-01 19:57
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Title
wireguard: socket: free skb in send6 when ipv6 is disabled
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wireguard: socket: free skb in send6 when ipv6 is disabled I got a memory leak report: unreferenced object 0xffff8881191fc040 (size 232): comm "kworker/u17:0", pid 23193, jiffies 4295238848 (age 3464.870s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff814c3ef4>] slab_post_alloc_hook+0x84/0x3b0 [<ffffffff814c8977>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x167/0x340 [<ffffffff832974fb>] __alloc_skb+0x1db/0x200 [<ffffffff82612b5d>] wg_socket_send_buffer_to_peer+0x3d/0xc0 [<ffffffff8260e94a>] wg_packet_send_handshake_initiation+0xfa/0x110 [<ffffffff8260ec81>] wg_packet_handshake_send_worker+0x21/0x30 [<ffffffff8119c558>] process_one_work+0x2e8/0x770 [<ffffffff8119ca2a>] worker_thread+0x4a/0x4b0 [<ffffffff811a88e0>] kthread+0x120/0x160 [<ffffffff8100242f>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 In function wg_socket_send_buffer_as_reply_to_skb() or wg_socket_send_ buffer_to_peer(), the semantics of send6() is required to free skb. But when CONFIG_IPV6 is disable, kfree_skb() is missing. This patch adds it to fix this bug.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd , < 096f9d35cac0a0c95ffafc00db84786b665a4837 (git)
Affected: e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd , < 402991a9771587acc2947cf6c4d689c5397f2258 (git)
Affected: e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd , < ebcc492f4ba14bae54b898f1016a37b4282558d1 (git)
Affected: e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd , < 0b19bcb753dbfb74710d12bb2761ec5ed706c726 (git)
Affected: e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd , < bbbf962d9460194993ee1943a793a0a0af4a7fbf (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.110 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.33 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16.19 , ≤ 5.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.2 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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