vulnerability
Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-16746: kernel: buffer-overflow hardening in WiFi beacon validation code.
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | 2019-09-24 | 2021-02-10 | 2025-04-11 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
2019-09-24
Added
2021-02-10
Modified
2025-04-11
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
linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos
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