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 products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TASE2ESEZAER6DTZH3DJ4K2JNO46TVL7/ ↗
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/11 ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4183-1/ ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4186-1/ ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4209-1/ ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4210-1/ ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00013.html ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html ↗
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html ↗
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155212/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html ↗
- https://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=156901391225058&w=2 ↗
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191031-0005/ ↗