{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2025-06-18T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: ath9k: fix use-after-free in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb",
    "id" : "2373551",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2373551"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.2",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-763",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nath9k: fix use-after-free in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb\nSyzbot reported use-after-free Read in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb() [0]. The\nproblem was in incorrect htc_handle->drv_priv initialization.\nProbable call trace which can trigger use-after-free:\nath9k_htc_probe_device()\n/* htc_handle->drv_priv = priv; */\nath9k_htc_wait_for_target()      <--- Failed\nieee80211_free_hw()   <--- priv pointer is freed\n<IRQ>\n...\nath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb()\nath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream()\nRX_STAT_INC()<--- htc_handle->drv_priv access\nIn order to not add fancy protection for drv_priv we can move\nhtc_handle->drv_priv initialization at the end of the\nath9k_htc_probe_device() and add helper macro to make\nall *_STAT_* macros NULL safe, since syzbot has reported related NULL\nderef in that macros [1]" ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "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-2022:8267",
    "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 10",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "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" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50179\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50179\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061832-CVE-2022-50179-92c5@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2022-50179",
  "csaw" : false
}