CVE-2022-42719 — Use After Free in Kernel
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
OSV8.1OSV7.0OSV5.5
EPSS
0.6%
top 30.51%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 13
Latest updateJun 15
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages8 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 11.0, Fedora 35, 36, 37