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CVE-2019-14901

kernel: heap overflow in marvell/mwifiex/tdls.c

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

8.8

CVSS 3.0

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Published · November 22, 2019

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

A heap overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Marvell WiFi chip driver. The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a system crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. The highest threat with this vulnerability is with the availability of the system. If code execution occurs, the code will run with the permissions of root. This will affect both confidentiality and integrity of files on the system.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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