User After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.2-rc1,6.1-rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.26% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3057777
  • published20 Oct 2022
  • disclosed20 Oct 2022
  • creditSönke Huster

Introduced: 20 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-42719  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.1-rc1 or higher.

Overview

torvalds/linux is a None

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to User After Free. in the ieee802_11_parse_elems_full() function in net/mac80211/util.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1