CVE-2019-16746

Description (CNA)

An issue was discovered in net/wireless/nl80211.c in the Linux kernel through 5.2.17. It does not check the length of variable elements in a beacon head, leading to a buffer overflow.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TASE2ESEZAER6DTZH3DJ4K2JNO46TVL7/
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/11
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4183-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4186-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4209-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4210-1/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00013.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155212/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html
• https://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=156901391225058&w=2
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191031-0005/

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