CVE-2022-49023 (GCVE-0-2022-49023)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-10-21 20:06
Modified
2026-08-05 08:53
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: fix buffer overflow in elem comparison For vendor elements, the code here assumes that 5 octets are present without checking. Since the element itself is already checked to fit, we only need to check the length.
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Linux Linux Version: 0b8fb8235be8be99a197e8d948fc0a2df8dc261a
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