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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-12465: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4431)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-12465: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4431)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/29/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

An array overflow was discovered in mt76_add_fragment in drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/dma.c in the Linux kernel before 5.5.10, aka CID-b102f0c522cf. An oversized packet with too many rx fragments can corrupt memory of adjacent pages.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel

References

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