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maintainers confirmed this occurs in real usage, so no attacker-uncontrollable race or rare config is required.\nPR:N - RX airtime accounting runs on frames addressed to the device MAC without authentication or local credentials; an unauthenticated adjacent WiFi peer can trigger the path.\nUI:N - No victim action is required beyond normal WiFi operation; the attacker only needs to exchange or inject frames on the wireless link.\nS:U - Impact is confined to the host kernel’s airtime accounting and memory access within the same security authority; there is no VM/IOMMU/sandbox boundary crossing.\nC:H - This is an out-of-bounds read of kernel memory past duration[MCS_GROUP_RATES]; per scoring guidance, OOB reads are C:H unless strictly limited to a few bytes, and rate_idx is a u8 on HE paths so the read is not tightly bounded on all call paths.\nI:N - The bug only reads a const duration table into a local airtime value; it does not write attacker-controlled data or provide a memory-corruption write/code-execution primitive.\nA:H - Out-of-bounds kernel reads can fault or oops when the index falls outside mapped rodata (especially for larger rate_idx values), and when crash potential is uncertain the higher availability impact is required."}]}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["net/mac80211/airtime.c"],"versions":[{"version":"db3e1c40cf2f973fbdd52ae0b59a9472b1c04f4a","lessThan":"0184ede0ec61b9cd075babfaa45081b1bf322234","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"db3e1c40cf2f973fbdd52ae0b59a9472b1c04f4a","lessThan":"59b54f0563b6546c94bdb6823d3b382c75407019","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"db3e1c40cf2f973fbdd52ae0b59a9472b1c04f4a","lessThan":"f0fcad4c7201ecfaa17357f4ce0c50b4708df22d","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"db3e1c40cf2f973fbdd52ae0b59a9472b1c04f4a","lessThan":"3e8f7abcc3473bc9603323803aeaed4ffcc3a2ab","status":"affected","versionType":"git"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["net/mac80211/airtime.c"],"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"5.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.10.158","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.15.82","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.0.12","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.1","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.5","versionEndExcluding":"5.10.158"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.5","versionEndExcluding":"5.15.82"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.5","versionEndExcluding":"6.0.12"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.5","versionEndExcluding":"6.1"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0184ede0ec61b9cd075babfaa45081b1bf322234"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59b54f0563b6546c94bdb6823d3b382c75407019"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0fcad4c7201ecfaa17357f4ce0c50b4708df22d"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e8f7abcc3473bc9603323803aeaed4ffcc3a2ab"}],"title":"wifi: mac8021: fix possible oob access in ieee80211_get_rate_duration","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}},"adp":[{"metrics":[{"other":{"type":"ssvc","content":{"id":"CVE-2022-49022","role":"CISA Coordinator","options":[{"Exploitation":"none"},{"Automatable":"no"},{"Technical Impact":"partial"}],"version":"2.0.3","timestamp":"2024-10-22T13:12:26.001640Z"}}}],"title":"CISA ADP Vulnrichment","providerMetadata":{"orgId":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0","shortName":"CISA-ADP","dateUpdated":"2024-10-22T13:18:37.055Z"}}]}}