CVE-2022-49023 (GCVE-0-2022-49023)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-21 20:06 – Updated: 2026-05-11 18:51
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Title
wifi: cfg80211: fix buffer overflow in elem comparison
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.
Severity
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Linux Linux Affected: 0b8fb8235be8be99a197e8d948fc0a2df8dc261a , < f5c2ec288a865dbe3706b09bed12302e9f6d696b (git)
Affected: 0b8fb8235be8be99a197e8d948fc0a2df8dc261a , < 9e6b79a3cd17620d467311b30d56f2648f6880aa (git)
Affected: 0b8fb8235be8be99a197e8d948fc0a2df8dc261a , < 88a6fe3707888bd1893e9741157a7035c4159ab6 (git)
Affected: 0b8fb8235be8be99a197e8d948fc0a2df8dc261a , < 391cb872553627bdcf236c03ee7d5adb275e37e1 (git)
Affected: 0b8fb8235be8be99a197e8d948fc0a2df8dc261a , < 9f16b5c82a025cd4c864737409234ddc44fb166a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.226 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.158 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.82 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.12 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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