CVE-2022-48787 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2022-48787

iwlwifi: fix use-after-free

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iwlwifi: fix use-after-free If no firmware was present at all (or, presumably, all of the firmware files failed to parse), we end up unbinding by calling device_release_driver(), which calls remove(), which then in iwlwifi calls iwl_drv_stop(), freeing the 'drv' struct. However the new code I added will still erroneously access it after it was freed. Set 'failure=false' in this case to avoid the access, all data was already freed anyway.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
8e10749fa1a454c1e7214f36cec83241f5a36ef1, 1d7cc54137a4f28506dc7beac235b240b08f4e59, 0446cafa843e6db4982731c167e11c80d42be7e2, febab6b60d61d13cd9f30a2991deea56df39567d, e23f075d77987de4215c8e0696f28bcc707506f7, 6b5ad4bd0d78fef6bbe0ecdf96e09237c9c52cc1, ab07506b0454bea606095951e19e72c282bfbb42, 4.14.263, 4.19.226, 5.4.174, 5.10.94, 5.15.17, 5.16.3

Timeline

Official Publish: July 16th, 2024
Last Modified: May 11th, 2026
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.