vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2022-42720: use-after-free in bss_ref_get in net/wireless/scan.c (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2022-10-14
Added
2023-05-15
Modified
2025-03-21

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)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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