# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49416"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:12:37.173Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:55:08.558Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49416"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49416.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49416"
title: "wifi: mac80211: fix use-after-free in chanctx code"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: fix use-after-free in chanctx code\n\nIn ieee80211_vif_use_reserved_context(), when we have an\nold context and the new context's replace_state is set to\nIEEE80211_CHANCTX_REPLACE_NONE, we free the old context\nin ieee80211_vif_use_reserved_reassign(). Therefore, we\ncannot check the old_ctx anymore, so we should set it to\nNULL after this point.\n\nHowever, since the new_ctx replace state is clearly not\nIEEE80211_CHANCTX_REPLACES_OTHER, we're not going to do\nanything else in this function and can just return to\navoid accessing the freed old_ctx."
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