CVE-2022-50164CWE-415

CVE-2022-50164

High · published June 18, 2025

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
24.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix double list_add at iwl_mvm_mac_wake_tx_queue

After successfull station association, if station queues are disabled for

some reason, the related lists are not emptied. So if some new element is

added to the list in iwl_mvm_mac_wake_tx_queue, it can match with the old

one and produce a BUG like this:

[ 46.535263] list_add corruption. prev->next should be next (ffff94c1c318a360), but was 0000000000000000. (prev=ffff94c1d02d3388).

[ 46.535283] ------------[ cut here ]------------

[ 46.535284] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:26!

[ 46.535290] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI

[ 46.585304] CPU: 0 PID: 623 Comm: wpa_supplicant Not tainted 5.19.0-rc3+ #1

[ 46.592380] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Inspiron 660s/0478VN , BIOS A07 08/24/2012

[ 46.600336] RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid.cold+0x3d/0x3f

[ 46.605475] Code: f2 4c 89 c1 48 89 fe 48 c7 c7 c8 40 67 93 e8 20 cc fd ff 0f 0b 48 89 d1 4c 89 c6 4c 89 ca 48 c7 c7 70 40 67 93 e8 09 cc fd ff <0f> 0b 48 89 fe 48 c7 c7 00 41 67 93 e8 f8 cb fd ff 0f 0b 48 89 d1

[ 46.624469] RSP: 0018:ffffb20800ab76d8 EFLAGS: 00010286

[ 46.629854] RAX: 0000000000000075 RBX: ffff94c1c318a0e0 RCX: 0000000000000000

[ 46.637105] RDX: 0000000000000201 RSI: ffffffff9365e100 RDI: 00000000ffffffff

[ 46.644356] RBP: ffff94c1c5f43370 R08: 0000000000000075 R09: 3064316334396666

[ 46.651607] R10: 3364323064316334 R11: 39666666663d7665 R12: ffff94c1c5f43388

[ 46.658857] R13: ffff94c1d02d3388 R14: ffff94c1c318a360 R15: ffff94c1cf2289c0

[ 46.666108] FS: 00007f65634ff7c0(0000) GS:ffff94c1da200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

[ 46.674331] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

[ 46.680170] CR2: 00007f7dfe984460 CR3: 000000010e894003 CR4: 00000000000606f0

[ 46.687422] Call Trace:

[ 46.689906] <TASK>

[ 46.691950] iwl_mvm_mac_wake_tx_queue+0xec/0x15c [iwlmvm]

[ 46.697601] ieee80211_queue_skb+0x4b3/0x720 [mac80211]

[ 46.702973] ? sta_info_get+0x46/0x60 [mac80211]

[ 46.707703] ieee80211_tx+0xad/0x110 [mac80211]

[ 46.712355] __ieee80211_tx_skb_tid_band+0x71/0x90 [mac80211]

...

In order to avoid this problem, we must also remove the related lists when

station queues are disabled.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00327 · 24.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-415 · Double Free
Published
2025-06-18T15:15Z
Affected products (5)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.1, < 5.4.2115.4.211
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.1375.10.137
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.615.15.61
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 5.18.185.18.18
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.19, < 5.19.25.19.2
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 JUN 11:03Z
    wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix double list_add at iwl_mvm_mac_wake_tx_queue
    cvelistv5