CVE-2022-49876

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.19-6.0.9 - NULL Pointer Dereference in ieee80211_subif_start_xmit

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: fix general-protection-fault in ieee80211_subif_start_xmit() When device is running and the interface status is changed, the gpf issue is triggered. The problem triggering process is as follows: Thread A: Thread B ieee80211_runtime_change_iftype() process_one_work() ... ... ieee80211_do_stop() ... ... ... sdata->bss = NULL ... ... ieee80211_subif_start_xmit() ieee80211_multicast_to_unicast //!sdata->bss->multicast_to_unicast cause gpf issue When the interface status is changed, the sending queue continues to send packets. After the bss is set to NULL, the bss is accessed. As a result, this causes a general-protection-fault issue. The following is the stack information: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000002f: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000178-0x000000000000017f] Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work RIP: 0010:ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x25b/0x1310 Call Trace: <TASK> dev_hard_start_xmit+0x1be/0x990 __dev_queue_xmit+0x2c9a/0x3b60 ip6_finish_output2+0xf92/0x1520 ip6_finish_output+0x6af/0x11e0 ip6_output+0x1ed/0x540 mld_sendpack+0xa09/0xe70 mld_ifc_work+0x71c/0xdb0 process_one_work+0x9bf/0x1710 worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 </TASK>

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 5.19.0 - 6.0.9linux
Linux/Linux < 5.19
Linux/Linux 5.19
Linux/Linux 6.0.9 - 6.0.*
Linux/Linux 6.1
Linux/Linux f856373e2f31ffd340e47e2b00027bd4070f74b3 - 03eb68c72cee249aeb7af7d04a83c033aca3d6d9
Linux/Linux f856373e2f31ffd340e47e2b00027bd4070f74b3 - 780854186946e0de2be192ee7fa5125666533b3a
linux/linux_kernel 6.1 rc1 (4 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.19 - 6.0.9
Published May 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026