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CVE-2019-16746

CVE information

Published

4 years ago

Last Modified

5 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

CVSSv3.1 Severity

Critical

Impact Analysis

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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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.5/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.4/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
Partial

CVSSv3.1 Score

Severity
Critical
Base Score
9.8/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
Impact Score
5.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
High
Availability Impact
High
Integrity Impact
High
Scope
Unchanged
User Interaction
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
2.6.25 3.16.79
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
3.17 4.4.197
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
4.5 4.9.197
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
4.10 4.14.149
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
4.15 4.19.79
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
4.20 5.3.6
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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