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High severity Unreviewed Published Jun 18, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 18, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix double list_add at iwl_mvm_mac_wake_tx_queue

After successfull station association, if station queues are disabled for
some reason, the related lists are not emptied. So if some new element is
added to the list in iwl_mvm_mac_wake_tx_queue, it can match with the old
one and produce a BUG like this:

[ 46.535263] list_add corruption. prev->next should be next (ffff94c1c318a360), but was 0000000000000000. (prev=ffff94c1d02d3388).
[ 46.535283] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 46.535284] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:26!
[ 46.535290] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[ 46.585304] CPU: 0 PID: 623 Comm: wpa_supplicant Not tainted 5.19.0-rc3+ #1
[ 46.592380] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Inspiron 660s/0478VN , BIOS A07 08/24/2012
[ 46.600336] RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid.cold+0x3d/0x3f
[ 46.605475] Code: f2 4c 89 c1 48 89 fe 48 c7 c7 c8 40 67 93 e8 20 cc fd ff 0f 0b 48 89 d1 4c 89 c6 4c 89 ca 48 c7 c7 70 40 67 93 e8 09 cc fd ff <0f> 0b 48 89 fe 48 c7 c7 00 41 67 93 e8 f8 cb fd ff 0f 0b 48 89 d1
[ 46.624469] RSP: 0018:ffffb20800ab76d8 EFLAGS: 00010286
[ 46.629854] RAX: 0000000000000075 RBX: ffff94c1c318a0e0 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 46.637105] RDX: 0000000000000201 RSI: ffffffff9365e100 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
[ 46.644356] RBP: ffff94c1c5f43370 R08: 0000000000000075 R09: 3064316334396666
[ 46.651607] R10: 3364323064316334 R11: 39666666663d7665 R12: ffff94c1c5f43388
[ 46.658857] R13: ffff94c1d02d3388 R14: ffff94c1c318a360 R15: ffff94c1cf2289c0
[ 46.666108] FS: 00007f65634ff7c0(0000) GS:ffff94c1da200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 46.674331] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 46.680170] CR2: 00007f7dfe984460 CR3: 000000010e894003 CR4: 00000000000606f0
[ 46.687422] Call Trace:
[ 46.689906]
[ 46.691950] iwl_mvm_mac_wake_tx_queue+0xec/0x15c [iwlmvm]
[ 46.697601] ieee80211_queue_skb+0x4b3/0x720 [mac80211]
[ 46.702973] ? sta_info_get+0x46/0x60 [mac80211]
[ 46.707703] ieee80211_tx+0xad/0x110 [mac80211]
[ 46.712355] __ieee80211_tx_skb_tid_band+0x71/0x90 [mac80211]
...

In order to avoid this problem, we must also remove the related lists when
station queues are disabled.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 18, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 18, 2025
Last updated Nov 18, 2025

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(0th percentile)

Weaknesses

Double Free

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2022-50164

GHSA ID

GHSA-wcwc-4ccj-82rc

Source code

No known source code

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