CVE-2022-49022

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's mac80211 wireless networking subsystem. An out-of-bounds memory read can occur during airtime calculation when handling transmission rate data. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by triggering malformed wireless frame status updates, leading to a system crash and Denial of Service (DoS), or potentially exposing sensitive kernel memory.

This issue is considered to be a moderate impact flaw, as the exploitation in this will not cause an Intigrity (I:L) threat with the available usecase.

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