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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 14, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-42720

CVE-2022-42720

Description

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.

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