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 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.
References (9)
Core 9
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0025
EPSS Percentile
16.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-416
Status
published
Products (29)
linux/Kernel
3.17.0 - 4.9.318linux
linux/Kernel
4.10.0 - 4.14.283linux
linux/Kernel
4.15.0 - 4.19.247linux
linux/Kernel
4.20.0 - 5.4.198linux
linux/Kernel
5.11.0 - 5.15.46linux
linux/Kernel
5.16.0 - 5.17.14linux
linux/Kernel
5.18.0 - 5.18.3linux
linux/Kernel
5.5.0 - 5.10.121linux
Linux/Linux
< 3.17
Linux/Linux
3.17
... and 19 more
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026