vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49153): linux vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Added
Mar 19, 2025
Modified
Sep 1, 2025

Description

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.

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