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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 21, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

wifi: cfg80211: fix buffer overflow in elem comparison

CVE-2022-49023

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: cfg80211: fix buffer overflow in elem comparison

For vendor elements, the code here assumes that 5 octets are present without checking. Since the element itself is already checked to fit, we only need to check the length.

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