CVE-2019-16746

HIGH

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.

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TASE2ESEZAER6DTZH3DJ4K2JNO46TVL7/

https://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=156901391225058&w=2

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191031-0005/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2019-09-24

Updated: 2019-10-18

Type: CWE-120

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: HIGH

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: CRITICAL

Tenable Plugins

View all (25 total)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
135813	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20200407)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
135316	CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2020:1016)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
135080	RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2020:1016)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
135078	RHEL 7 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2020:1070)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
134559	openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2020-336)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
134486	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2020-1197)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
134363	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2020:0613-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
134289	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2020:0560-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
134240	Debian DLA-2114-1 : linux-4.9 security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
133101	Debian DLA-2068-1 : linux security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
132925	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2020:0093-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
132796	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.5.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2020-1042)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
132539	Photon OS 2.0: Linux PHSA-2019-2.0-0189	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
132430	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:3389-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
131805	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-2531)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
131564	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-gke-4.15, linux-hwe, (USN-4210-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
131563	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 19.04 : linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.0, linux-gcp, linux-gke-5.0, linux-hwe, (USN-4209-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
131349	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-2283)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
131014	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : linux vulnerability (USN-4186-3)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
131011	Ubuntu 19.10 : linux vulnerability (USN-4183-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
130966	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm vulnerabilities (USN-4186-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
130963	Ubuntu 19.10 : linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, (USN-4183-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
130751	Slackware 14.2 : Slackware 14.2 kernel (SSA:2019-311-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	critical
130033	Fedora 30 : kernel / kernel-headers / kernel-tools (2019-057d691fd4)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
130032	Fedora 31 : kernel / kernel-headers / kernel-tools (2019-038d78eaa5)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high