CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2022-49934
High (7.8) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: Fix UAF in ieee80211_scan_rx()
ieee80211_scan_rx() tries to access scan_req->flags after a
null check, but a UAF is observed when the scan is completed
and __ieee80211_scan_completed() executes, which then calls
cfg80211_scan_done() leading to the freeing of scan_req.
Since scan_req is rcu_dereference()'d, prevent the racing in
__ieee80211_scan_completed() by ensuring that from mac80211's
POV it is no longer accessed from an RCU read critical section
before we call cfg80211_scan_done().
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 14% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4abc8c07a065ecf771827bde3c63fbbe4aa0c08b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d20c6f932f2758078d0454729129c894fe353e7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60deb9f10eec5c6a20252ed36238b55d8b614a2c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6eb181a64fdabf10be9e54de728876667da20255
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78a07732fbb0934d14827d8f09b9aa6a49ee1aa9