Security Advisory

CVE-2022-49416

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-02-26 02:12:37
Last updated 2026-05-11 18:59:23
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

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 contexts 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, were not going to do anything else in this function and can just return to avoid accessing the freed old_ctx.