CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-38206

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-08-08 Modified 2026-10-08 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-08-08
Last modified
2026-10-08
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

The mac80211 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 5.12.13, when a device supporting only 5 GHz is used, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference in the radiotap parser) by injecting a frame with 802.11a rates.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 5.12.13)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References