Siebe Devroe, Héloïse Gollier, and Mathy Vanhoef discovered that the WiFi implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle aggregated frames in mesh networks, due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2020-24588. A physically proximate attacker could use this issue to inject packets. (CVE-2025-27558) Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
USN-8661-5: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities
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