{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50829 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2022-50829 is an use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-50829 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-50829 is an use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50829 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50829/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50829/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-50829","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50829/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-50829","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50829","GHSA-m2j8-j8ph-hxxh","UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50829"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the ath9k USB WiFi driver allows local attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ath9k: hif_usb: Fix use-after-free in ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb()\n\nIt is possible that skb is freed in ath9k_htc_rx_msg(), then\nusb_submit_urb() fails and we try to free skb again. It causes\nuse-after-free bug. Moreover, if alloc_skb() fails, urb-\u003econtext becomes\nNULL but rx_buf is not freed and there can be a memory leak.\n\nThe patch removes unnecessary nskb and makes skb processing more clear: it\nis supposed that ath9k_htc_rx_msg() either frees old skb or passes its\nmanaging to another callback function.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: Fix use-after-free in ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb()","id":"CVE-2022-50829","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2022"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":9,"next":{"headline":"auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix potential memory leak in hd44780_remove()","id":"CVE-2022-50830"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"clk: zynqmp: Fix stack-out-of-bounds in strncpy`","id":"CVE-2022-50828"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-30","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the ath9k USB WiFi driver allows local attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50829/"}