UBUNTU-CVE-2020-26142

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2020-26142

    Published: 11 May 2021Last Modified: 17 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-26142

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in the kernel in OpenBSD 6.6. The WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA3 implementations treat fragmented frames as full frames. An adversary can abuse this to inject arbitrary network packets, independent of the network configuration.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-26142, https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/usenix2021.pdf, https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/[email protected]/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-26142

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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