# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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- Obtain operator approval before production changes. No commands or remediation were generated. This historical snapshot does not establish current applicability, a released fix or exploitation; no network or model call generated this brief.

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-2022-49956"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T11:00:18.341Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:56:53.613Z"
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-2022-49956"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49956.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49956"
title: "staging: rtl8712: fix use after free bugs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: rtl8712: fix use after free bugs\n\n_Read/Write_MACREG callbacks are NULL so the read/write_macreg_hdl()\nfunctions don't do anything except free the \"pcmd\" pointer.  It\nresults in a use after free.  Delete them."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7dce6b0ee7d78667d6c831ced957a08769973063"},{"version":"2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"376e15487fec837301d888068a3fcc82efb6171a"},{"version":"2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9fd6170c5e2d0ccd027abe26f6f5ffc528e1bb27"},{"version":"2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d0aac7146e96bf39e79c65087d21dfa02ef8db38"},{"version":"2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"19e3f69d19801940abc2ac37c169882769ed9770"},{"version":"2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dc02aaf950015850e7589696521c7fca767cea77"},{"version":"2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1727def850904e4b8ba384043775672841663a1"},{"version":"2865d42c78a9121caad52cb02d1fbb7f5cdbc4ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e230a4455ac3e9b112f0367d1b8e255e141afae0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.37","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.37"},{"version":"4.9.328","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.293","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.213","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.142","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.66","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.19.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.19.*"},{"version":"6.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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