🛡️ CVE-2022-42896
🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-416 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

There are use-after-free vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel's net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c's l2cap_connect and l2cap_le_connect_req functions which may allow code execution and leaking kernel memory (respectively) remotely via Bluetooth. A remote attacker could execute code leaking kernel memory via Bluetooth if within proximity of the victim. We recommend upgrading past commit  https://www.google.com/url https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/711f8c3fb3db61897080468586b970c87c61d9e4 https://www.google.com/url

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-416
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-11-23
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux-kernel 5.16 6.0.8

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