# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49728"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:24:39.347Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:05:41.987Z"
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-2022-49728"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49728.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49728"
title: "ipv6: Fix signed integer overflow in __ip6_append_data"
summary: "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."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f26422eabeb517629568edf8c2dd9c6cb9147584"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"70549c80fe80ac4e2a22068c76ebebced24f7e74"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"84dc940890e91e42898e4443a093281702440abf"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f93431c86b631bbca5614c66f966bf3ddb3c2803"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.10.236","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.180","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.18.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.18.*"},{"version":"5.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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