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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-12465: kernel: buffer overflow in mt76_add_fragment function in drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/dma.c

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-12465: kernel: buffer overflow in mt76_add_fragment function in drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/dma.c

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/29/2020
Created
03/13/2021
Added
03/12/2021
Modified
05/10/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

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