DEBIAN-CVE-2021-38206

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-38206 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

The mac80211 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 5.12.13, when a device supporting only 5 GHz is used, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference in the radiotap parser) by injecting a frame with 802.11a rates.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:13	linux	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	linux	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	linux	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	linux	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Aug 8, 2021 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-38206 advisory

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