CVE-2019-9503

Summary

CVECVE-2019-9503
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-01-16 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-04-18 18:09:00 UTC
DescriptionThe Broadcom brcmfmac WiFi driver prior to commit a4176ec356c73a46c07c181c6d04039fafa34a9f is vulnerable to a frame validation bypass. If the brcmfmac driver receives a firmware event frame from a remote source, the is_wlc_event_frame function will cause this frame to be discarded and unprocessed. If the driver receives the firmware event frame from the host, the appropriate handler is called. This frame validation can be bypassed if the bus used is USB (for instance by a wifi dongle). This can allow firmware event frames from a remote source to be processed. In the worst case scenario, by sending specially-crafted WiFi packets, a remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. More typically, this vulnerability will result in denial-of-service conditions.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Broadcom Brcmfmac Driver - All All All
Application Broadcom Brcmfmac Driver - All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
VU#166939 - Broadcom WiFi chipset drivers contain multiple vulnerabilities MISC kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Bug 1132828 – VUL-1: CVE-2019-9503: kernel-source: brcmfmac frame validation bypass MISC bugzilla.suse.com
1701842 – (CVE-2019-9503) CVE-2019-9503 kernel: brcmfmac frame validation bypass MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
Reverse-engineering Broadcom wireless chipsets MISC blog.quarkslab.com Third Party Advisory
CVE-2019-9503 MISC security-tracker.debian.org
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2019-9503 in Ubuntu MISC people.canonical.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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