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CVE-2022-42720

Published: 10/13/2022 Last updated: 5/15/2025 Reserved: 10/10/2022

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.

CNA assigner: mitre (8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 7.8 High CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Opam packages affected (27)

albatross cdrom conf-bpftool conf-libbpf conf-linux-libc-dev core core_unix hvsock mirage-block-unix mm ocaml-probes orun rawlink rawlink-eio rawlink-lwt shell solo5 solo5-bindings-hvt solo5-bindings-spt solo5-cross-aarch64 solo5-kernel-ukvm tracy-client tuntap uring vhd-format vhd-format-lwt xapi-stdext-unix

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a 1.8.2

References (20)