Debian: CVE-2019-16746: linux -- security update
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
09/24/2019
01/21/2020
01/20/2020
07/07/2020
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- debian-upgrade-linux
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