linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50831: wifi: mac80211: fix MBSSID parsing use-after-free

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <2025123016-CVE-2022-50831-28c6@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:13:17 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50831: wifi: mac80211: fix MBSSID parsing use-after-free

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

wifi: mac80211: fix MBSSID parsing use-after-free

commit ff05d4b45dd89b922578dac497dcabf57cf771c6

When we parse a multi-BSSID element, we might point some
element pointers into the allocated nontransmitted_profile.
However, we free this before returning, causing UAF when the
relevant pointers in the parsed elements are accessed.

Fix this by not allocating the scratch buffer separately but
as part of the returned structure instead, that way, there
are no lifetime issues with it.

The scratch buffer introduction as part of the returned data
here is taken from MLO feature work done by Ilan.

This fixes CVE-2022-42719.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50831 to this issue.

Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.2 with commit 5023b14cf4df4d22e1a80738167f3438c9e62e5f and fixed in 5.15.74 with commit de124365a7d2deed22cf706583930f28d537ff0f

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-50831
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.

Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
	net/mac80211/util.c

Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de124365a7d2deed22cf706583930f28d537ff0f