vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2020-12465: ELSA-2020-4431: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 3, 2020
Added
Oct 5, 2022
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

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.
A memory overflow and data corruption flaw were found in the Mediatek MT76 driver module for WiFi in mt76_add_fragment in drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/dma.c. An oversized packet with too many rx fragments causes an overflow and corruption in memory of adjacent pages. A local attacker with a special user or root privileges can cause a denial of service or a leak of internal kernel information.

Solutions

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