CVE-2021-38206

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 8, 2021
Updated: Oct 8, 2026
Reserved: Aug 8, 2021

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.12.13
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bddc0c411a45d3718ac535a070f349be8eca8d48

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