Vulnerability CVE-2020-12465
Published: 2020-04-29

Description:
An array overflow was discovered in mt76_add_fragment in drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/dma.c in the Linux kernel before 5.5.10, aka CID-b102f0c522cf. An oversized packet with too many rx fragments can corrupt memory of adjacent pages.

Type:

CWE-787

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 

 References:
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.5.10
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b102f0c522cf668c8382c56a4f771b37d011cda2
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b102f0c522cf668c8382c56a4f771b37d011cda2
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