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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-42721: Infinite Loop

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 13, 2022
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

A list management bug in 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 corrupt a linked list and, in turn, potentially execute code.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-linux-lts
Title
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