CVE-2021-47602
kernel: mac80211: track only QoS data frames for admission control
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · June 19, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mac80211: track only QoS data frames for admission control
For admission control, obviously all of that only works for QoS data frames, otherwise we cannot even access the QoS field in the header.
Syzbot reported (see below) an uninitialized value here due to a status of a non-QoS nullfunc packet, which isn't even long enough to contain the QoS header.
Fix this to only do anything for QoS data packets.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference