CVE-2022-50413

wifi: mac80211: fix use-after-free

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Sep 18, 2025
Updated: Aug 5, 2026
Reserved: Sep 17, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: fix use-after-free

We've already freed the assoc_data at this point, so need to use another copy of the AP (MLD) address instead.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Linux
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-416 Use After Free

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	81151ce462e533551f3284bfdb8e0f461c9220e6 to before aebef10affe16228462af680b88751bf137e2856Affected 81151ce462e533551f3284bfdb8e0f461c9220e6 to before 40fb87129049ec5876dabf4a4d4aed6642b31f1aAffected
LinuxLinux	6.0Affected before 6.0Not affected 6.0.3 through 6.0.*Not affected 6.1 and laterNot affected

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