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Kernel: wireless: radiotap: parsing buffer overrun

Published Dec 9, 2013

Description

The ieee80211_radiotap_iterator_init function in net/wireless/radiotap.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11.7 does not check whether a frame contains any data outside of the header, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) via a crafted header.

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Red Hat statement

The Red Hat Security Response Team does not consider this issue to be a security flaw. For more details please refer to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1040010#c1

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CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Dec 9, 2013
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Dec 9, 2013
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Oct 11, 2013