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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-42719: Use After Free

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-42719: Use After Free

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

Description

A use-after-free in the mac80211 stack when parsing a multi-BSSID element in the Linux kernel 5.2 through 5.19.x before 5.19.16 could be used by attackers (able to inject WLAN frames) to crash the kernel and potentially execute code.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-linux-lts

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