Bug 1960490 (CVE-2020-26140) - CVE-2020-26140 kernel: accepting plaintext data frames in protected networks
Summary: CVE-2020-26140 kernel: accepting plaintext data frames in protected networks
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2020-26140
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1978181 1960491 1960516 1960517 1977861
Blocks: 1959275
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-05-14 03:25 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2022-01-14 15:58 UTC (History)
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A vulnerability was found in Linux kernel. Where the WiFi implementations accept plaintext frames in a protected WiFi network. An adversary can abuse this to inject arbitrary data frames independent of the network configuration.
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Last Closed: 2021-11-09 20:51:08 UTC

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:4140 0 None None None 2021-11-09 17:22:50 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:4356 0 None None None 2021-11-09 18:25:58 UTC

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2021-05-14 03:25:06 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. Where the Wifi implementations accept plaintext frames in a protected Wi-Fi network. An adversary can abuse this to inject arbitrary data frames independent of the network configuration.

Upstream patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20210511180259.159598-1-johannes@sipsolutions.net/
Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2021-05-14 03:25:40 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1960491]
Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-09 17:22:48 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:4140 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4140
Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-09 18:25:54 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:4356 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4356
Comment 23 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-11-09 20:51:03 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-2020-26140
Comment 24 Justin M. Forbes 2022-01-14 15:58:14 UTC 
This was fixed for Fedora with the 5.12.9 stable kernel updates.
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