{"id":"CVE-2022-49728","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-49728","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:48:36.045Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: Fix signed integer overflow in __ip6_append_data Resurrect ubsan overflow checks and ubsan report this warning, fix it by change the variable [length] type to size_t.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: Fix signed integer overflow in __ip6_append_data\n\nResurrect ubsan overflow checks and ubsan report this warning,\nfix it by change the variable [length] type to size_t.\n\nUBSAN: signed-integer-overflow in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1489:19\n2147479552 + 8567 cannot be represented in type 'int'\nCPU: 0 PID: 253 Comm: err Not tainted 5.16.0+ #1\nHardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)\nCall trace:\n  dump_backtrace+0x214/0x230\n  show_stack+0x30/0x78\n  dump_stack_lvl+0xf8/0x118\n  dump_stack+0x18/0x30\n  ubsan_epilogue+0x18/0x60\n  handle_overflow+0xd0/0xf0\n  __ubsan_handle_add_overflow+0x34/0x44\n  __ip6_append_data.isra.48+0x1598/0x1688\n  ip6_append_data+0x128/0x260\n  udpv6_sendmsg+0x680/0xdd0\n  inet6_sendmsg+0x54/0x90\n  sock_sendmsg+0x70/0x88\n  ____sys_sendmsg+0xe8/0x368\n  ___sys_sendmsg+0x98/0xe0\n  __sys_sendmmsg+0xf4/0x3b8\n  __arm64_sys_sendmmsg+0x34/0x48\n  invoke_syscall+0x64/0x160\n  el0_svc_common.constprop.4+0x124/0x300\n  do_el0_svc+0x44/0xc8\n  el0_svc+0x3c/0x1e8\n  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x88/0xb0\n  el0t_64_sync+0x16c/0x170\n\nChanges since v1:\n-Change the variable [length] type to unsigned, as Eric Dumazet suggested.\nChanges since v2:\n-Don't change exthdrlen type in ip6_make_skb, as Paolo Abeni suggested.\nChanges since v3:\n-Don't change ulen type in udpv6_sendmsg and l2tp_ip6_sendmsg, as\nJakub Kicinski suggested.","published":"2025-02-26T07:01:48.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:18:59.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-190"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00295,"percentile":0.21938,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.29%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70549c80fe80ac4e2a22068c76ebebced24f7e74","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84dc940890e91e42898e4443a093281702440abf","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f26422eabeb517629568edf8c2dd9c6cb9147584","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f93431c86b631bbca5614c66f966bf3ddb3c2803","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49728","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}