iwlwifi: fix use-after-free
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.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
41 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/008508c16af0087cda0394e1ac6f0493b01b6063
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/494de920d98f125b099f27a2d274850750aff957
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d6475179b85a83186ccce59cdc359d4f07d0bcb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9958b9cbb22145295ee1ffaea0904c383da2c05d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bea2662e7818e15d7607d17d57912ac984275d94
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3b98fe36f8a06ce654049540773256ab59cb53d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ddd46059f7d99119b62d44c519df7a79f2e6a515
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/48xxx/CVE-2022-48787.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48787