Vulnerability CVE-2022-47518


Published: 2022-12-18

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.

 References:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123153543.8568-5-philipturnbull@github.com
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0cdfa9e6f0915e3d243e2393bfa8a22e12d553b0

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