CVE-2022-50533

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
Publication date:
07/10/2025
Last modified:
05/02/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> wifi: mac80211: mlme: fix null-ptr deref on failed assoc<br /> <br /> If association to an AP without a link 0 fails, then we crash in<br /> tracing because it assumes that either ap_mld_addr or link 0 BSS<br /> is valid, since we clear sdata-&gt;vif.valid_links and then don&amp;#39;t<br /> add the ap_mld_addr to the struct.<br /> <br /> Since we clear also sdata-&gt;vif.cfg.ap_addr, keep a local copy of<br /> it and assign it earlier, before clearing valid_links, to fix<br /> this.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.0 (including) 6.0.16 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.1 (including) 6.1.2 (excluding)