GHSA-578w-3cjw-832g

GHSA-578w-3cjw-832g PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published August 23, 2022

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s IEEE 802.15.4 wireless networking subsystem in the way the user closes the LR-WPAN connection. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

5.5

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

Timeline

Aug 23, 2022 CVE Published
May 1, 2026 Security Advisory

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3659 advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3659 url
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975949 url
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1165affd484889d4986cf3b724318935a0b120d8 url

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