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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 14, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-42721

CVE-2022-42721

Description

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

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