CVE-2021-3659

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 22, 2022
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Jul 22, 2021

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-252 Unchecked Return Value, CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Kerneln/a	Fixed in Kernel 5.12Affected

References

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

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