Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-16746: kernel: buffer-overflow hardening in WiFi beacon validation code.
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09/24/2019
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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)
- linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos
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