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CVE-2022-50829

Updated on 30 Dec 2025

Severity

6.2 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
6.2
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

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

wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: Fix use-after-free in ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb()

It is possible that skb is freed in ath9k_htc_rx_msg(), then usb_submit_urb() fails and we try to free skb again. It causes use-after-free bug. Moreover, if alloc_skb() fails, urb->context becomes NULL but rx_buf is not freed and there can be a memory leak.

The patch removes unnecessary nskb and makes skb processing more clear: it is supposed that ath9k_htc_rx_msg() either frees old skb or passes its managing to another callback function.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+5 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU Released
16 kernels
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els20
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els21
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els23
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els22
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els14
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els18
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els16
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els15
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els17
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els19
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els24
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els25
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els26
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els27
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els28
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els29
RHEL 8 Planned —
RHEL 9 Will Not Fix —
Ubuntu 18.04 Planned —
Ubuntu 20.04 Planned —
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned —