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CVE-2022-47518An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.0.11. Missing validation of the number of channels in…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.32%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 75% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.0.11. Missing validation of the number of channels in drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c in the WILC1000 wireless driver can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow when copying the list of operating channels from Wi-Fi management frames.
Timeline
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 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.32% · top 75% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References5
- https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123153543.8568-5-philipturnbull%40github.com (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0cdfa9e6f0915e3d243e2393bfa8a22e12d553b0 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20221222 [SECURITY] [DLA 3244-1] linux-5.10 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230113-0007/ (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-2022-50279 (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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