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Tracker / CVE-2022-1679

CVE-2022-1679

High 7.8

A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s Atheros wireless adapter driver in the way a user forces the ath9k_htc_wait_for_target function to fail with some input messages. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.35 → 4.14.291
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.256
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.211
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.61
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 5.18.18
linux linux_kernel · 5.19 → 5.19.2
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.137
netapp h300e_firmware
netapp h300s_firmware
netapp h410c_firmware
netapp h410s_firmware
netapp h500e_firmware
netapp h500s_firmware
netapp h700e_firmware
netapp h700s_firmware

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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