# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50179"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T11:03:28.841Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:14:20.518Z"
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-2022-50179"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50179.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50179"
title: "ath9k: fix use-after-free in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nath9k: fix use-after-free in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb\n\nSyzbot reported use-after-free Read in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb() [0]. The\nproblem was in incorrect htc_handle-\u003edrv_priv initialization.\n\nProbable call trace which can trigger use-after-free:\n\nath9k_htc_probe_device()\n  /* htc_handle-\u003edrv_priv = priv; */\n  ath9k_htc_wait_for_target()      \u003c--- Failed\n  ieee80211_free_hw()\t\t   \u003c--- priv pointer is freed\n\n\u003cIRQ\u003e\n...\nath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb()\n  ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream()\n   RX_STAT_INC()\t\t\u003c--- htc_handle-\u003edrv_priv access\n\nIn order to not add fancy protection for drv_priv we can move\nhtc_handle-\u003edrv_priv initialization at the end of the\nath9k_htc_probe_device() and add helper macro to make\nall *_STAT_* macros NULL safe, since syzbot has reported related NULL\nderef in that macros [1]"
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