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Tracker / CVE-2019-16746

CVE-2019-16746

Critical 9.8

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 and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
fedoraproject fedora
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.25 → 3.16.79
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 4.4.197
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.149
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.79
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.3.6
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.197
opensuse leap

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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