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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-3846: kernel: Heap overflow in mwifiex_update_bss_desc_with_ie function in marvell/mwifiex/scan.c

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 3, 2019
Added
Dec 29, 2020
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A flaw that allowed an attacker to corrupt memory and possibly escalate privileges was found in the mwifiex kernel module while connecting to a malicious wireless network.

Solution

linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

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