vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2022-42721: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 14, 2022
Added
Nov 1, 2022
Modified
Mar 30, 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

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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