# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49153"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T01:55:18.745Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:54:09.824Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49153"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49153.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49153"
title: "wireguard: socket: free skb in send6 when ipv6 is disabled"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwireguard: socket: free skb in send6 when ipv6 is disabled\n\nI got a memory leak report:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff8881191fc040 (size 232):\n  comm \"kworker/u17:0\", pid 23193, jiffies 4295238848 (age 3464.870s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003cffffffff814c3ef4\u003e] slab_post_alloc_hook+0x84/0x3b0\n    [\u003cffffffff814c8977\u003e] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x167/0x340\n    [\u003cffffffff832974fb\u003e] __alloc_skb+0x1db/0x200\n    [\u003cffffffff82612b5d\u003e] wg_socket_send_buffer_to_peer+0x3d/0xc0\n    [\u003cffffffff8260e94a\u003e] wg_packet_send_handshake_initiation+0xfa/0x110\n    [\u003cffffffff8260ec81\u003e] wg_packet_handshake_send_worker+0x21/0x30\n    [\u003cffffffff8119c558\u003e] process_one_work+0x2e8/0x770\n    [\u003cffffffff8119ca2a\u003e] worker_thread+0x4a/0x4b0\n    [\u003cffffffff811a88e0\u003e] kthread+0x120/0x160\n    [\u003cffffffff8100242f\u003e] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30\n\nIn function wg_socket_send_buffer_as_reply_to_skb() or wg_socket_send_\nbuffer_to_peer(), the semantics of send6() is required to free skb. But\nwhen CONFIG_IPV6 is disable, kfree_skb() is missing. This patch adds it\nto fix this bug."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"096f9d35cac0a0c95ffafc00db84786b665a4837"},{"version":"e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"402991a9771587acc2947cf6c4d689c5397f2258"},{"version":"e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ebcc492f4ba14bae54b898f1016a37b4282558d1"},{"version":"e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b19bcb753dbfb74710d12bb2761ec5ed706c726"},{"version":"e7096c131e5161fa3b8e52a650d7719d2857adfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bbbf962d9460194993ee1943a793a0a0af4a7fbf"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.6"},{"version":"5.10.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.17.*"},{"version":"5.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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