CVE-2022-49646 wifi: mac80211: fix queue selection for mesh/OCB interfaces

What is CVE-2022-49646?

CVE-2022-49646 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

wifi: mac80211: fix queue selection for mesh/OCB interfaces

When using iTXQ, the code assumes that there is only one vif queue for broadcast packets, using the BE queue. Allowing non-BE queue marking violates that assumption and txq->ac == skb_queue_mapping is no longer guaranteed. This can cause issues with queue handling in the driver and also causes issues with the recent ATF change, resulting in an AQL underflow warning.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49646?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-49646?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-49646 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49646 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49646, GHSA-8998-mv35-8cj9, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49646.