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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-42721: Infinite Loop

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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
10/13/2022
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

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(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-linux-lts

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