vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2022-49942: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 20, 2025
Added
Jun 20, 2025
Modified
Nov 18, 2025

Description

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().

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
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