CVE-2022-49956 staging: rtl8712: fix use after free bugs

What is CVE-2022-49956?

CVE-2022-49956 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Jun 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:

staging: rtl8712: fix use after free bugs

_Read/Write_MACREG callbacks are NULL so the read/write_macreg_hdl() functions don't do anything except free the "pcmd" pointer. It results in a use after free. Delete them.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49956?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-49956?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2022-49956 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49956 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-2022-49956, GHSA-p2p9-p33f-wg2c, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49956.