vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-42720)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 13, 2022
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

Various refcounting bugs in the multi-BSS handling in the mac80211 stack in the Linux kernel 5.1 through 5.19.14 could be used by remote attackers who are able to inject WLAN frames to trigger use-after-free conditions to potentially execute code.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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