{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2022-02-07T10:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: use-after-free in ath9k_htc_probe_device() could cause an escalation of privileges",
    "id" : "2084125",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2084125"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.0",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-416",
  "details" : [ "A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s Atheros wireless adapter driver in the way a user forces the ath9k_htc_wait_for_target function to fail with some input messages. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.", "A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s Atheros wireless adapter driver in the way a user forces the ath9k_htc_wait_for_target function to fail with some input messages. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system." ],
  "statement" : "Keeping this issue Moderate, because the impact is limited: likely only possibility of memory leak and crash, but not privileges escalation and both kind of race condition that is hard to trigger.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank elijahbai (Tencent Security Yunding Lab) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2023-05-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:2736",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-477.10.1.rt7.274.el8_8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2023-05-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:2951",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2024-01-25T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:0412",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-372.87.1.el8_6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2022-11-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:8267",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2022-11-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:7933",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:5.14.0-162.6.1.rt21.168.el9_1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2022-11-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:8267",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-01-25T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:0412",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhev_hypervisor:4.4::el8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-372.87.1.el8_6"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1679\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1679\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87ilqc7jv9.fsf@kernel.org/t/" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2022-1679",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "To mitigate this issue, prevent the module ath9k from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for information on how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}