CVE-2021-3659
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-22 14:49
Modified
2024-08-03 17:01
Severity ?
Summary
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s IEEE 802.15.4 wireless networking subsystem in the way the user closes the LR-WPAN connection. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3659Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975949Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1165affd484889d4986cf3b724318935a0b120d8Patch, Vendor Advisory
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