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Red Hat: CVE-2022-42722: Denial of service in beacon protection for P2P-device (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2022-42722: Denial of service in beacon protection for P2P-device (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/14/2022
Created
05/15/2023
Added
05/15/2023
Modified
09/03/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel 5.8 through 5.19.x before 5.19.16, local attackers able to inject WLAN frames into the mac80211 stack could cause a NULL pointer dereference denial-of-service attack against the beacon protection of P2P devices.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-kernel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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