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CVE-2022-41674An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.19.16. Attackers able to inject WLAN frames could cause a buffer overflow in the…
- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 4.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.19.16. Attackers able to inject WLAN frames could cause a buffer overflow in the ieee80211_bss_info_update function in net/mac80211/scan.c.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 15 days later
· 15 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.1% · top 9.0% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References12
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203770 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/net/mac80211/scan.c (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/10/13/2 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/10/13/5 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless.git/commit/?id=aebe9f4639b13a1f4e9a6b42cdd2e38c617b442d (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-2cfbe17910 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-b948fc3cfb (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-1a5b125ac6 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- DSA-5257 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20221101 [SECURITY] [DLA 3173-1] linux-5.10 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/169951/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0090-1.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-44860 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-41674)Record last updated .