Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-doc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELDOC-9495317
  • published21 Mar 2025
  • disclosed13 Oct 2022

Introduced: 13 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-42720  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc package as distributed by RHEL.

Various refcounting bugs in the multi-BSS handling in the mac80211 stack in the Linux kernel 5.1 through 5.19.x before 5.19.16 could be used by local attackers (able to inject WLAN frames) to trigger use-after-free conditions to potentially execute code.