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

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Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 14, 2022
Added
May 15, 2023
Modified
Nov 14, 2025

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.

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redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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