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CVE-2014-8709
The ieee80211_fragment function in net/mac80211/tx.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.5 does not properly maintain a certain tail pointer,…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 4.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The ieee80211_fragment function in net/mac80211/tx.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.5 does not properly maintain a certain tail pointer, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive cleartext information by reading packets.
Timeline
ID reserved
By microfocus
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.5% · top 8.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
13
- 1037968 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:0652 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/338f977f4eb441e69bb9a46eaa0ac715c931a67f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0290 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:0481 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0566 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20141109 Re: CVE Request: Linux kernel mac80211 plain text leak (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- linux-kernel-cve20148709-info-disclsoure(98922) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1272 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 70965 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=338f977f4eb441e69bb9a46eaa0ac715c931a67f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-8541 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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