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CVE-2021-38206

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2021-08-08 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-476

References