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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-41674: Out-of-bounds Write

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-41674: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/13/2022
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.19.16. Attackers able to inject WLAN frames could cause a buffer overflow in the ieee80211_bss_info_update function in net/mac80211/scan.c.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-linux-lts

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