CVE-2022-50248 (GCVE-0-2022-50248)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-15 14:02
Modified
2026-08-05 08:57
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix double free on tx path. We see kernel crashes and lockups and KASAN errors related to ax210 firmware crashes. One of the KASAN dumps pointed at the tx path, and it appears there is indeed a way to double-free an skb. If iwl_mvm_tx_skb_sta returns non-zero, then the 'skb' sent into the method will be freed. But, in case where we build TSO skb buffer, the skb may also be freed in error case. So, return 0 in that particular error case and do cleanup manually. BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_del_entry_valid+0x12/0x90 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000000 | tsf hi Read of size 8 at addr ffff88813cfa4ba0 by task btserver/9650 CPU: 4 PID: 9650 Comm: btserver Tainted: G W 5.19.8+ #5 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000000 | time gp1 Hardware name: Default string Default string/SKYBAY, BIOS 5.12 02/19/2019 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x55/0x6d print_report.cold.12+0xf2/0x684 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x1D0915A8 | time gp2 ? __list_del_entry_valid+0x12/0x90 kasan_report+0x8b/0x180 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000001 | uCode revision type ? __list_del_entry_valid+0x12/0x90 __list_del_entry_valid+0x12/0x90 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000048 | uCode version major tcp_update_skb_after_send+0x5d/0x170 __tcp_transmit_skb+0xb61/0x15c0 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0xDAA05125 | uCode version minor ? __tcp_select_window+0x490/0x490 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000420 | hw version ? trace_kmalloc_node+0x29/0xd0 ? __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x12a/0x260 ? memset+0x1f/0x40 ? __build_skb_around+0x125/0x150 ? __alloc_skb+0x1d4/0x220 ? skb_zerocopy_clone+0x55/0x230 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00489002 | board version ? kmalloc_reserve+0x80/0x80 ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0x60/0xb0 tcp_write_xmit+0x3f1/0x24d0 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x034E001C | hcmd ? __check_object_size+0x180/0x350 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x24020000 | isr0 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x8a9/0x1520 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x01400000 | isr1 ? tcp_sendpage+0x50/0x50 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x48F0000A | isr2 ? lock_release+0xb9/0x400 ? tcp_sendmsg+0x14/0x40 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00C3080C | isr3 ? lock_downgrade+0x390/0x390 ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x114/0x1d0 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00200000 | isr4 ? rwlock_bug.part.2+0x50/0x50 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x034A001C | last cmd Id ? rwlock_bug.part.2+0x50/0x50 ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xe/0x200 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x0000C2F0 | wait_event ? __local_bh_enable_ip+0x87/0xe0 ? inet_send_prepare+0x220/0x220 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x000000C4 | l2p_control tcp_sendmsg+0x22/0x40 sock_sendmsg+0x5f/0x70 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00010034 | l2p_duration __sys_sendto+0x19d/0x250 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000007 | l2p_mhvalid ? __ia32_sys_getpeername+0x40/0x40 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000000 | l2p_addr_match ? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0x12/0x50 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0 ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0 ? lock_release+0xb9/0x400 ? lock_downgrade+0x390/0x390 ? ktime_get+0x64/0x130 ? ktime_get+0x8d/0x130 ? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0x12/0x50 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0 ? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0x12/0x50 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0 ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0 ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0 __x64_sys_sendto+0x6f/0x80 do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 RIP: 0033:0x7f1d126e4531 Code: 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 8d 05 35 80 0c 00 41 89 ca 8b 00 85 c0 75 1c 45 31 c9 45 31 c0 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 67 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 83 ec 20 48 89 RSP: 002b:00007ffe21a679d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000ffdc RCX: 00007f1d126e4531 RDX: 0000000000010000 RSI: 000000000374acf0 RDI: 0000000000000014 RBP: 00007ffe21a67ac0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R ---truncated---
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Linux Linux Version: 08f7d8b69aaf137db8ee0a2d7c9e6cd6383ae250
Version: 08f7d8b69aaf137db8ee0a2d7c9e6cd6383ae250
Version: 08f7d8b69aaf137db8ee0a2d7c9e6cd6383ae250
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Version: 08f7d8b69aaf137db8ee0a2d7c9e6cd6383ae250
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              "value": "AV:L - The vulnerable code runs on the local WiFi TX path and is reached via sendto/tcp_sendmsg through mac80211 into iwl_mvm_tx_skb_sta, not by processing received WiFi frames. A local process sending large GSO TCP traffic over an Intel iwlwifi interface is sufficient.\nAC:L - An attacker can reliably create GSO/TSO skbs by sending large TCP payloads over WiFi (TSO is advertised by default on affected devices), and iwl_mvm_tx_mpdu failure after segmentation is reachable via attacker-influenced conditions such as GFP_ATOMIC tx-cmd allocation failure under memory pressure or STATUS_FW_ERROR; no uncontrolled race is required.\nPR:L - Any unprivileged local user can trigger the path with a normal TCP sendto on the WiFi interface, as shown in the KASAN stack; no root or special capabilities are required.\nUI:N - The attacker triggers the bug by sending their own traffic; no separate victim action is required.\nS:U - This is kernel heap memory corruption within the host kernel\u0027s authority and does not cross a VM, IOMMU, or other security boundary.\nC:H - The bug is a double-free/UAF of an skbuff_fclone_cache object, which per CVSS kernel guidance enables heap reuse and arbitrary read primitives.\nI:H - Double-free of an skb enables heap spraying and corruption suitable for arbitrary write or control-flow hijacking, so integrity impact is High.\nA:H - The double-free produces kernel UAF crashes, oopses, and lockups as reported (KASAN use-after-free and observed crashes), so availability impact is High."
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        "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T08:57:55.856Z",
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      "title": "wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix double free on tx path.",
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    "assignerShortName": "Linux",
    "cveId": "CVE-2022-50248",
    "datePublished": "2025-09-15T14:02:07.723Z",
    "dateReserved": "2025-09-15T13:58:00.972Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T08:57:55.856Z",
    "state": "PUBLISHED"
  },
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  "dataVersion": "5.2"
}


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