Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-50716

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - wifi: ar5523: Fix use-after-free on ar5523cmd timed out syzkaller reported use-after-free with the stack trace like below 1: 38.960489 C3...

CVE-2022-50716

In the Linux kernel, CVE-2022-50716 relates to wifi/ar5523: a use-after-free in ar5523_cmd() when a timed-out command could lead to touching freed memory during probe. The patch fixes this by canceling in-flight tx commands when a USB urb timed out, preventing ar5523_cmd_tx_cb() from accessing a ...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Wifi: ar5523: Proper endpoint verification should be enabled. Syzkaller reports that 1 encountered a warning regarding an endpoint in use that does not have the expected type. This issue can be fixed by checking the existence of...