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cve-2019-9500

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2020-01-16 20:35

Modified

2024-08-04 21:54

Severity ?

7.9 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Broadcom brcmfmac driver is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://blog.quarkslab.com/reverse-engineering-broadcom-wireless-chipsets.html	x_refsource_MISC
	https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/166939/	x_refsource_MISC
	https://git.kernel.org/linus/1b5e2423164b3670e8bc9174e4762d297990deff	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

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Broadcom

brcmfmac WiFi driver

Version: commit prior to 1b5e2423164b3670e8bc9174e4762d297990deff

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cve-2019-9503