🛡️ CVE-2022-49023
🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-120 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-120
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-10-21
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-10-24

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux-kernel

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