CVE-2022-42719

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-416 Use After Free

Publication date:

13/10/2022

Last modified:

15/05/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

8.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.2 (including)	5.4.219 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.149 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.74 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	5.19.16 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.0 (including)	6.0.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*

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CVE-2022-42719

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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