CVE-2022-49153

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.6-5.10.110, 5.11-5.15.33, 5.16-5.16.19, 5.17-5.17.2 - Use-After-Free in WireGuard Socket Send Buffer

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (17)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.33linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.16.19linux
linux/Kernel 5.17.0 - 5.17.2linux
linux/Kernel 5.6.0 - 5.10.110linux
Linux/Linux < 5.6
Linux/Linux 5.10.110 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.33 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.16.19 - 5.16.*
Linux/Linux 5.17.2 - 5.17.*
Linux/Linux 5.18
... and 7 more
Published Feb 26, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026