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Debian: CVE-2022-42720: linux, linux-5.10 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2022-42720: linux, linux-5.10 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/14/2022
Created
11/02/2022
Added
11/01/2022
Modified
11/04/2022

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)

  • debian-upgrade-linux
  • debian-upgrade-linux-5-10

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