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CVE-2022-42720

Published: Oct 13, 2022

Modified: May 15, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

Various refcounting bugs in the multi-BSS handling in the mac80211 stack in the Linux kernel 5.1 through 5.19.x before 5.19.16 could be used by local attackers (able to inject WLAN frames) to trigger use-after-free conditions to potentially execute code.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204059

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/10/13/5

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless.git/commit/?id=0b7808818cb9df6680f98996b8e9a439fa7bcc2f

FEDORA-2022-2cfbe17910

vendor-advisory

FEDORA-2022-b948fc3cfb

vendor-advisory

FEDORA-2022-1a5b125ac6

vendor-advisory

vendor-advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20221101 [SECURITY] [DLA 3173-1] linux-5.10 security update

mailing-list

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/169951/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0090-1.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230203-0008/

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