CVE-2019-16746
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 12.7%
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.
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 12.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 96th percentile
- Published
- 2019-09-24
- Updated
- 2024-08-05
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
- uthrasri/CVE-2019-167460★ · 2024-06-19
Security advisories
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00009.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155212/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-ke…
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00013.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html
- https://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=156901391225058&w=2
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/11
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191031-0005
- 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://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html