vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2022-42721: BSS list corruption in cfg80211_add_nontrans_list in net/wireless/scan.c (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
2022-10-14
Added
2023-05-15
Modified
2025-03-21

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(s)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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