Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-rt-modules-extra  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-KERNELRTMODULESEXTRA-8790192
  • published28 Feb 2025
  • disclosed26 Feb 2025

Introduced: 26 Feb 2025

CVE-2022-49479  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-364  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-modules-extra package and not the kernel-rt-modules-extra package as distributed by Centos.

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

mt76: fix tx status related use-after-free race on station removal

There is a small race window where ongoing tx activity can lead to a skb getting added to the status tracking idr after that idr has already been cleaned up, which will keep the wcid linked in the status poll list. Fix this by only adding status skbs if the wcid pointer is still assigned in dev->wcid, which gets cleared early by mt76_sta_pre_rcu_remove