Bug 2348200 (CVE-2022-49728)

Summary: CVE-2022-49728 kernel: ipv6: Fix signed integer overflow in __ip6_append_data
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:21:08 UTC 
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.

UBSAN: signed-integer-overflow in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1489:19
2147479552 + 8567 cannot be represented in type 'int'
CPU: 0 PID: 253 Comm: err Not tainted 5.16.0+ #1
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
  dump_backtrace+0x214/0x230
  show_stack+0x30/0x78
  dump_stack_lvl+0xf8/0x118
  dump_stack+0x18/0x30
  ubsan_epilogue+0x18/0x60
  handle_overflow+0xd0/0xf0
  __ubsan_handle_add_overflow+0x34/0x44
  __ip6_append_data.isra.48+0x1598/0x1688
  ip6_append_data+0x128/0x260
  udpv6_sendmsg+0x680/0xdd0
  inet6_sendmsg+0x54/0x90
  sock_sendmsg+0x70/0x88
  ____sys_sendmsg+0xe8/0x368
  ___sys_sendmsg+0x98/0xe0
  __sys_sendmmsg+0xf4/0x3b8
  __arm64_sys_sendmmsg+0x34/0x48
  invoke_syscall+0x64/0x160
  el0_svc_common.constprop.4+0x124/0x300
  do_el0_svc+0x44/0xc8
  el0_svc+0x3c/0x1e8
  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x88/0xb0
  el0t_64_sync+0x16c/0x170

Changes since v1:
-Change the variable [length] type to unsigned, as Eric Dumazet suggested.
Changes since v2:
-Don't change exthdrlen type in ip6_make_skb, as Paolo Abeni suggested.
Changes since v3:
-Don't change ulen type in udpv6_sendmsg and l2tp_ip6_sendmsg, as
Jakub Kicinski suggested.
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 18:40:44 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022634-CVE-2022-49728-1f8a@gregkh/T