CVE-2020-12465

medium
Published 2020-11-03 ยท Modified 2020-11-04
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

An array overflow was discovered in mt76_add_fragment in drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/dma.c in the Linux kernel before 5.5.10, aka CID-b102f0c522cf. An oversized packet with too many rx fragments can corrupt memory of adjacent pages.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
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almalinux AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8 Fixed kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-240.el8.x86_64.rpm
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 5.5.13-1
sid Fixed 5.5.13-1
forky Fixed 5.5.13-1
bullseye Fixed 5.5.13-1
bookworm Fixed 5.5.13-1
redhat Red Hat Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8 Fixed โ€”

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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