CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-16746
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.25 < 3.16.79)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 4.4.197)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.197)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.149)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.79)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.3.6)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 19.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 19.10
• fedoraproject fedora 30
• opensuse leap 15.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155212/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TASE2ESEZAER6DTZH3DJ4K2JNO46TVL7/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=156901391225058&w=2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/11 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191031-0005/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4183-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4186-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4209-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4210-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155212/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TASE2ESEZAER6DTZH3DJ4K2JNO46TVL7/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=156901391225058&w=2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/11 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191031-0005/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4183-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4186-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4209-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4210-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html Third Party Advisory