CVE-2021-38206

Description

The mac80211 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 5.12.13, when a device supporting only 5 GHz is used, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference in the radiotap parser) by injecting a frame with 802.11a rates.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bddc0c411a45d3718ac535a070f349be8eca8d48

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.12.13

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3