CVE-2020-12654

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The Marvell mwifiex driver allows a remote WiFi access point to trigger a heap-based memory buffer overflow due to an incorrect memcpy operation. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity and system availability.

Mitigation

In order to mitigate this issue, it is possible to prevent the affected code from being loaded by blacklisting the kernel module mwifiex. For instructions relating to how to blacklist a kernel module, refer to: <https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278&gt;