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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 21, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

mac80211: fix skb length check in ieee80211_scan_rx()

CVE-2021-47251

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.

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