CVE-2019-16746 — Classic Buffer Overflow in Kernel
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
OSV6.7OSV6.5
EPSS
2.6%
top 14.36%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 24
Latest updateMay 24
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages6 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, Ubuntu Linux 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10, Fedora 30
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
8OSV▶
CVE-2019-16746: In multiple methods, there is a possible out of bounds read due to a missing bounds check during initial processing of a beacon packet↗2020-08-01
OSV▶
linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-gke-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities↗2019-12-03
OSV▶
linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.0, linux-gcp, linux-gke-5.0, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oem-osp1, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.0, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities↗2019-12-02