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CVE-2022-49416

High 8.8

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 products and versions

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 · 5.11 → 5.15.46
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 5.17.14
linux linux_kernel · 5.18 → 5.18.3
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.121

Analysis

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