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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-42720: Use After Free

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-42720: Use After Free

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/13/2022
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-linux-lts

References

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