CVE-2022-49727

CVSS 3.1 Score 5.5 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Feb 26, 2025

Updated: Mar 7, 2025

CWE ID 190

Summary

CVE-2022-49727: A signed integer overflow vulnerability has been identified and addressed in the Linux kernel's ipv6 subsystem. Specifically, in the function l2tp_ip6_sendmsg, when the length (len) is greater than INT_MAX minus the transmission header length (transhdrlen), the calculation ulen = len + transhdrlen can result in an integer overflow. This issue has been resolved by subtracting the transmission header length from the maximum limit before checking the length.

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Advisories, Assessments, and Mitigations

https://app.recordedfuture.com/live/sc/entity/3utrj6
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49727
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49727

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