CVE-2022-42720 Information

Description

Various refcounting bugs in the multi-BSS handling in the mac80211 stack in the Linux kernel 5.1 through 5.19.14 could be used by local attackers (able to inject WLAN frames) to trigger use-after-free conditions to potentially execute code.

Reference

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204059 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/10/13/5 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless.git/commit/?id=0b7808818cb9df6680f98996b8e9a439fa7bcc2f https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GGHENNMLCWIQV2LLA56BJNFIUZ7WB4IY/