Bug 1744130 (CVE-2019-14814)

Summary: CVE-2019-14814 kernel: heap overflow in mwifiex_set_uap_rates() function of Marvell Wifi Driver leading to DoS
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: acaringi, airlied, bhu, blc, brdeoliv, bskeggs, dhoward, dvlasenk, esammons, fhrbata, hdegoede, hkrzesin, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jeremy, jforbes, jglisse, jlelli, john.j5live, jonathan, josef, jross, jshortt, jstancek, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lgoncalv, linville, masami256, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mjg59, mlangsdo, msiddiqu, nmurray, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, security-response-team, steved, williams, wmealing
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the Marvell wifi driver, which can allow a local user who has CAP_NET_ADMIN or administrative privileges to possibly cause a Denial Of Service (DOS) by corrupting memory and possible code execution.
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Bug Depends On: 1775474, 1775475, 1775476, 1775477, 1775478, 1775479, 1776618, 1776622, 1780612, 1785195, 1785196    
Bug Blocks: 1744131    

Description Marian Rehak 2019-08-21 12:24:31 UTC
A flaw was found in the Linux kernels implementation of marvell wifi driver which can allow a local user who has CAP_NET_ADMIN or administrative privileges to possibly cause a Denial Of Service (DOS) by corrupting memory and possible code execution.

Comment 2 msiddiqu 2019-08-28 19:57:57 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: Huangwen (ADLab of Venustech)

Comment 3 msiddiqu 2019-08-28 20:01:15 UTC
*contents deleted*

Comment 4 msiddiqu 2019-08-28 20:01:20 UTC
References: 

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/28/1

Comment 7 Wade Mealing 2019-11-22 03:57:20 UTC
Leaving this flaw rated as moderate due to the local privs required to activate this flaw already.

Comment 10 Petr Matousek 2019-12-06 14:08:16 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1780612]

Comment 11 Justin M. Forbes 2019-12-06 23:15:28 UTC
This was fixed for Fedora with the 5.2.17 stable kernel updates.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2020-01-21 15:49:56 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:0174 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0174

Comment 14 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-01-21 20:09:39 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-14814

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2020-02-04 08:51:47 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:0328 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0328

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2020-02-04 13:11:53 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:0339 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0339