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Heap-based Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELHEADERS-4935179
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed30 May 2019
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Introduced: 30 May 2019

CVE-2019-3846  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.

A flaw that allowed an attacker to corrupt memory and possibly escalate privileges was found in the mwifiex kernel module while connecting to a malicious wireless network.

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