CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49326
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-02-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-908
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rtl818x: Prevent using not initialized queues
Using not existing queues can panic the kernel with rtl8180/rtl8185 cards.
Ignore the skb priority for those cards, they only have one tx queue. Pierre
Asselin ([email protected]) reported the kernel crash in the Gentoo forum:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1147832-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-25.html
He also confirmed that this patch fixes the issue. In summary this happened:
After updating wpa_supplicant from 2.9 to 2.10 the kernel crashed with a
"divide error: 0000" when connecting to an AP. Control port tx now tries to
use IEEE80211_AC_VO for the priority, which wpa_supplicants starts to use in
2.10.
Since only the rtl8187se part of the driver supports QoS, the priority
of the skb is set to IEEE80211_AC_BE (2) by mac80211 for rtl8180/rtl8185
cards.
rtl8180 is then unconditionally reading out the priority and finally crashes on
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c line 544 without this
patch:
idx = (ring->idx + skb_queue_len(&ring->queue)) % ring->entries
"ring->entries" is zero for rtl8180/rtl8185 cards, tx_ring[2] never got
initialized.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 4.9.318)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.283)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.247)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.198)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.121)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.46)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.17.14)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.18 < 5.18.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ad81ad0cf5744738ce94c8e64051ddd80a1734c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/746285cf81dc19502ab238249d75f5990bd2d231 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/769ec2a824deae2f1268dfda14999a4d14d0d0c5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98e55b0b876bde3353f4e074883d66ecb55c65a3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ad1981fc4de3afb7db3e8eb5a6a52d4c7d0d577 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d5e96cc1f1720019ce27b127a31695148d38bb0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5dca2cd3f0239512da808598b4e70557eb4c2a1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8ce58ab80faaea015c206382041ff3bcf5495ff Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7e30dfc166d33470bba31a42f9bbc346e5409d5 Patch