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CVE-2019-16746

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Date: September 24, 2019

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

9.8

Related Resources (20)

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TASE2ESEZAER6DTZH3DJ4K2JNO46TVL7/

Url: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16746

Url: https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/11

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16746

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191031-0005/

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/4186-1/

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/4210-1/

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-16746

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-16746

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00013.html

Url: http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155212/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html

Url: https://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=156901391225058&w=2

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/4183-1/

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/4209-1/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TASE2ESEZAER6DTZH3DJ4K2JNO46TVL7/

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2019-16746

Severity Score

9.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CWE-120

Top Fix

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	9.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.5
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2019-16746

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Date: September 24, 2019

Language: C

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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