Security Advisory

CVE-2021-47251

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-05-21 14:19:47
Last updated 2026-05-11 13:50:53
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mac80211: fix skb length check in ieee80211_scan_rx() Replace hard-coded compile-time constants for header length check with dynamic determination based on the frame type. Otherwise, we hit a validation WARN_ON in cfg80211 later. [style fixes, reword commit message]