CVE-2019-16746

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CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

EPSS

13%p96

Published

Sep 24, 2019 (Sep 24, 2019)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: linux debian canonical fedoraproject opensuse
Products: linux kernel, debian linux, ubuntu linux, fedora, leap
Weakness: CWE-120
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (12.7%)

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