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ghsa-578w-3cjw-832g

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-08-23 00:00

Modified

2022-08-24 00:00

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

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.

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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

▼	URL	Tags
	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1165affd484889d4986cf3b724318935a0b120d8	x_refsource_MISC
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975949	x_refsource_MISC
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3659	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	n/a	Kernel

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