CVE-2022-49942

wifi: mac80211: Don't finalize CSA in IBSS mode if state is disconnected

published June 18, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
17.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

wifi: mac80211: Don't finalize CSA in IBSS mode if state is disconnected

When we are not connected to a channel, sending channel "switch"

announcement doesn't make any sense.

The BSS list is empty in that case. This causes the for loop in

cfg80211_get_bss() to be bypassed, so the function returns NULL

(check line 1424 of net/wireless/scan.c), causing the WARN_ON()

in ieee80211_ibss_csa_beacon() to get triggered (check line 500

of net/mac80211/ibss.c), which was consequently reported on the

syzkaller dashboard.

Thus, check if we have an existing connection before generating

the CSA beacon in ieee80211_ibss_finish_csa().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00262 · 17.1th percentile
Published
2025-06-18T10:59Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 JUN 10:59Z
    wifi: mac80211: Don't finalize CSA in IBSS mode if state is disconnected
    cvelistv5