CVE-2022-42721 Information

Description

A list management bug in 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 corrupt a linked list and in turn potentially execute code.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless.git/commit/?id=bcca852027e5878aec911a347407ecc88d6fff7f https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204060 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/10/13/5 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GGHENNMLCWIQV2LLA56BJNFIUZ7WB4IY/