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        "cveId": "CVE-2022-49533",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2025-02-26T02:08:31.589Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-02-26T02:13:52.495Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T08:55:28.982Z"
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nath11k: Change max no of active probe SSID and BSSID to fw capability\n\nThe maximum number of SSIDs in a for active probe requests is currently\nreported as 16 (WLAN_SCAN_PARAMS_MAX_SSID) when registering the driver.\nThe scan_req_params structure only has the capacity to hold 10 SSIDs.\nThis leads to a buffer overflow which can be triggered from\nwpa_supplicant in userspace. When copying the SSIDs into the\nscan_req_params structure in the ath11k_mac_op_hw_scan route, it can\noverwrite the extraie pointer.\n\nFirmware supports 16 ssid * 4 bssid, for each ssid 4 bssid combo probe\nrequest will be sent, so totally 64 probe requests supported. So\nset both max ssid and bssid to 16 and 4 respectively. Remove the\nredundant macros of ssid and bssid.\n\nTested-on: IPQ8074 hw2.0 AHB WLAN.HK.2.7.0.1-01300-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1"
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                        "version": "3.1",
                        "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                        "baseScore": 7.8,
                        "baseSeverity": "HIGH"
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                    "scenarios": [
                        {
                            "lang": "en",
                            "value": "AV:L - The bug is reached via NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN (netlink) into mac80211 drv_hw_scan → ath11k_mac_op_hw_scan; it is not triggered by received Wi‑Fi frames or a remote protocol.\nAC:L - An attacker who can issue a scan reliably triggers the overflow by supplying 11–16 SSIDs (allowed by advertised max_scan_ssids=16) with fully controlled 32-byte SSID contents; no race or unpredictable state is required.\nPR:L - TRIGGER_SCAN uses GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM (CAP_NET_ADMIN in the netns user_ns), which is obtainable as a low-privilege capability in common deployments (wpa_supplicant/NetworkManager, Android Wi‑Fi scan paths), not full root-only init-namespace admin.\nUI:N - Exploitation requires only attacker-initiated scan netlink requests with crafted SSID lists; no separate victim action is needed.\nS:U - Impact is confined to the host kernel/driver authority; there is no VM, IOMMU, or other security-boundary escape.\nC:H - Overflow of ssid[12] overwrites extraie.len/ptr with attacker-controlled bytes, and ath11k_wmi_send_scan_start_cmd then memcpy()s from that pointer, yielding an arbitrary kernel read primitive.\nI:H - This is an attacker-controlled out-of-bounds write that corrupts extraie.ptr; with a supplied IE, cleanup kfree()s the corrupted pointer (arbitrary free), enabling heap exploitation and control-flow hijacking.\nA:H - Dereferencing or freeing the corrupted extraie pointer causes kernel oops/panic, and the same path can force large/invalid allocations or crashes during WMI command build."
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50dc9ce9f80554a88e33b73c30851acf2be36ed3"
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