CVE-2021-38206
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2021-38206 |
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| State | PUBLIC |
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| Assigner | [email protected] |
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| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
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| Published | 2021-08-08 20:15:00 UTC |
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| Updated | 2021-08-12 13:33:00 UTC |
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| Description | The mac80211 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 5.12.13, when a device supporting only 5 GHz is used, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference in the radiotap parser) by injecting a frame with 802.11a rates. |
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NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
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| Operating System |
Linux |
Linux Kernel |
All |
All |
All |
All |
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
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| cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.12.13 |
MISC |
cdn.kernel.org |
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| mac80211: Fix NULL ptr deref for injected rate info · torvalds/linux@bddc0c4 · GitHub |
MISC |
github.com |
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| CVE Program record |
CVE.ORG |
www.cve.org |
canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail |
NVD |
nvd.nist.gov |
canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
Legacy QID Mappings
- 179676 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2021-38206)
- 198491 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5070-1)
- 751160 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:3179-1)
- 751170 OpenSUSE Security Update for the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:3205-1)
- 900294 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for kernel 5.10.52.1
- 900304 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for kernel 5.10.57.1
- 900319 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for kernel 5.10.60.1
- 901109 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (6590-1)
- 903700 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (5081)
- 905907 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (5081-1)
