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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…

High CVSS 7.8
CVECVE-2022-42720
First seen2026-10-14 20:15 UTC
Disclosed2022-10-14 00:15 UTC
Last updated2026-10-14 20:15 UTC
Channel statusauto

Summary

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.

In-depth triage

No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).

Affected products

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Sources

  • NVD DATABASE

Original Links

Timeline

  1. nvd_ingest NVD