CVE-2022-42721 (GCVE-0-2022-42721)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-10-13 00:00
Modified
2025-05-15 20:45
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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