cve-2022-49876
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-01 14:10
Modified
2025-05-01 14:10
Severity ?
Summary
wifi: mac80211: fix general-protection-fault in ieee80211_subif_start_xmit()
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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            "net/mac80211/tx.c"
          ],
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          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: fix general-protection-fault in ieee80211_subif_start_xmit()\n\nWhen device is running and the interface status is changed, the gpf issue\nis triggered. The problem triggering process is as follows:\nThread A:                           Thread B\nieee80211_runtime_change_iftype()   process_one_work()\n    ...                                 ...\n    ieee80211_do_stop()                 ...\n    ...                                 ...\n        sdata-\u003ebss = NULL               ...\n        ...                             ieee80211_subif_start_xmit()\n                                            ieee80211_multicast_to_unicast\n                                    //!sdata-\u003ebss-\u003emulticast_to_unicast\n                                      cause gpf issue\n\nWhen the interface status is changed, the sending queue continues to send\npackets. After the bss is set to NULL, the bss is accessed. As a result,\nthis causes a general-protection-fault issue.\n\nThe following is the stack information:\ngeneral protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n0xdffffc000000002f: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000178-0x000000000000017f]\nWorkqueue: mld mld_ifc_work\nRIP: 0010:ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x25b/0x1310\nCall Trace:\n\u003cTASK\u003e\ndev_hard_start_xmit+0x1be/0x990\n__dev_queue_xmit+0x2c9a/0x3b60\nip6_finish_output2+0xf92/0x1520\nip6_finish_output+0x6af/0x11e0\nip6_output+0x1ed/0x540\nmld_sendpack+0xa09/0xe70\nmld_ifc_work+0x71c/0xdb0\nprocess_one_work+0x9bf/0x1710\nworker_thread+0x665/0x1080\nkthread+0x2e4/0x3a0\nret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30\n\u003c/TASK\u003e"
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        "dateUpdated": "2025-05-01T14:10:25.040Z",
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        "shortName": "Linux"
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        {
          "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03eb68c72cee249aeb7af7d04a83c033aca3d6d9"
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          "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/780854186946e0de2be192ee7fa5125666533b3a"
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    "assignerShortName": "Linux",
    "cveId": "CVE-2022-49876",
    "datePublished": "2025-05-01T14:10:25.040Z",
    "dateReserved": "2025-05-01T14:05:17.238Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2025-05-01T14:10:25.040Z",
    "state": "PUBLISHED"
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