CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49416
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-02-26
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: fix use-after-free in chanctx code
In ieee80211_vif_use_reserved_context(), when we have an
old context and the new context's replace_state is set to
IEEE80211_CHANCTX_REPLACE_NONE, we free the old context
in ieee80211_vif_use_reserved_reassign(). Therefore, we
cannot check the old_ctx anymore, so we should set it to
NULL after this point.
However, since the new_ctx replace state is clearly not
IEEE80211_CHANCTX_REPLACES_OTHER, we're not going to do
anything else in this function and can just return to
avoid accessing the freed old_ctx.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 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-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/265bec4779a38b65e86a25120370f200822dfa76 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2965c4cdf7ad9ce0796fac5e57debb9519ea721e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ba81e794f0fad6234f644c2da1ae14d5b95e1c4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f05a9e15edcdf5b97e0d86ab6ecd5f187289f6c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6118bbdf69f4718b02d26bbcf2e497eb66004331 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82c8e7bbdd06c7ed58e22450cc5b37f33a25bb2c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88cc8f963febe192d6ded9df7217f92f380b449a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f1e5cc85ad77e52f54049a94db0407445ae2a34 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b79110f2bf6022e60e590d2e094728a8eec3e79e Patch