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CVE-2022-49023
HIGH · CVSS 7.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2024-10-21T20:15:13.290 · Last modified 2026-08-04T10:17:31.467

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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