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  - wifi: mac80211: Discard Beacon frames to non-broadcast address Beacon frames are required to be sent to     the broadcast address, see IEEE Std 802.11-2020, 11.1.3.1 (The Address 1 field of the Beacon .. frame     shall be set to the broadcast address). A unicast Beacon frame might be used as a targeted attack to get     one of the associated STAs to do something (e.g., using CSA to move it to another channel). As such, it is     better have strict filtering for this on the received side and discard all Beacon frames that are sent to     an unexpected address. This is even more important for cases where beacon protection is used. The current     implementation in mac80211 is correctly discarding unicast Beacon frames if the Protected Frame bit in the     Frame Control field is set to 0. However, if that bit is set to 1, the logic used for checking for     configured BIGTK(s) does not actually work. If the driver does not have logic for dropping unicast Beacon     frames with Protected Frame bit 1, these frames would be accepted in mac80211 processing as valid Beacon     frames even though they are not protected. This would allow beacon protection to be bypassed. While the     logic for checking beacon protection could be extended to cover this corner case, a more generic check for     discard all Beacon frames based on A1=unicast address covers this without needing additional changes.
    Address all these issues by dropping received Beacon frames if they are sent to a non-broadcast address.
    (CVE-2025-71127)

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-71127

medium Nessus Plugin ID 284697

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Version 1.8 Feb 12, 2026, 7:05 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202602120705
Version 1.6 Feb 10, 2026, 11:15 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202602101115
Version 1.5 Feb 7, 2026, 9:06 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202602070906
Version 1.4 Feb 1, 2026, 12:31 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202602010031
Version 1.3 Jan 21, 2026, 10:50 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202601211050
Version 1.2 Jan 16, 2026, 10:12 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to none) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to none) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to none) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to none) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to none) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to none) CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2025-71127, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202601162212
Version 1.1 Jan 15, 2026, 2:04 PM New Plugin Feed: 202601151404