vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-42721)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 13, 2022
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

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

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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