CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-42720
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-10-14
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
Various refcounting bugs in the multi-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 trigger use-after-free conditions to potentially execute code.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.1 < 5.4.218)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.148)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.74)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.19.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.0 < 6.0.2)
• fedoraproject fedora 36
• fedoraproject fedora 37
• debian debian linux 10.0
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/169951/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0090-1.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/10/13/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204059 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless.git/commit/?id=0b7808818cb9df6680f98996b8e9a439fa7bcc2f Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GGHENNMLCWIQV2LLA56BJNFIUZ7WB4IY/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S2KTU5LFZNQS7YNGE56MT46VHMXL3DD2/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VNN3VFQPECS6D4PS6ZWD7AFXTOSJDSSR/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230203-0008/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5257 Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/169951/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0090-1.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/10/13/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204059 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless.git/commit/?id=0b7808818cb9df6680f98996b8e9a439fa7bcc2f Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GGHENNMLCWIQV2LLA56BJNFIUZ7WB4IY/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S2KTU5LFZNQS7YNGE56MT46VHMXL3DD2/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VNN3VFQPECS6D4PS6ZWD7AFXTOSJDSSR/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230203-0008/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5257 Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html cert-portal.siemens.com