CVE-2019-16746

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last 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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-120

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Sep 24, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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