CVE-2014-8709 (GCVE-0-2014-8709)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-11-10 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:26
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Summary
The ieee80211_fragment function in net/mac80211/tx.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.5 does not properly maintain a certain tail pointer, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive cleartext information by reading packets.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2014-02-22 00:00
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  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.