The Broadcom brcmfmac WiFi driver prior to commit a4176ec356c73a46c07c181c6d04039fafa34a9f is vulnerable to a frame validation bypass. If the brcmfmac driver receives a firmware event frame from a remote source, the is_wlc_event_frame function will cause this frame to be discarded and unprocessed. If the driver receives the firmware event frame from the host, the appropriate handler is called. This frame validation can be bypassed if the bus used is USB (for instance by a wifi dongle). This can allow firmware event frames from a remote source to be processed. In the worst case scenario, by sending specially-crafted WiFi packets, a remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. More typically, this vulnerability will result in denial-of-service conditions.
CVE-2019-9503
Score 8.3 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 7.9; sources differ by 0.4.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.9
- EG Score
- 8.3(medium)
- EPSS
- 87.1%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
January 16, 2020
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (14)
- cret@certhttps://blog.quarkslab.com/reverse-engineering-broadcom-wireless-chipsets.html
- cret@certhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1701842
- cret@certhttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132828
- cret@certhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a4176ec356c73a46c07c181c6d04039fafa34a9f
- cret@certhttps://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/166939/
- cret@certhttps://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-9503.html
- cret@certhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-9503
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blog.quarkslab.com/reverse-engineering-broadcom-wireless-chipsets.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1701842
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132828
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a4176ec356c73a46c07c181c6d04039fafa34a9f
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/166939/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-9503.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-9503
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2019-9503(3)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2020:2522Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2020:1070Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2020:1016Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Patch Availability(12)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
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| ubuntu | linux-image-virtual-hwe-16.04-edge (4.15.0.50.52) @ bionic | 2026-05-27 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-image-4.18.0-1012-kvm (4.18.0-1012.12) @ cosmic | 2026-05-27 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-image-virtual-hwe-16.04 (4.15.0.50.71) @ xenial | 2026-05-27 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-image-virtual-lts-xenial (4.4.0.157.165) @ xenial | 2026-05-27 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-image-virtual-lts-xenial (4.4.0.159.167) @ xenial | 2026-05-27 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-image-virtual-hwe-18.04 (4.18.0.20.70) @ bionic | 2026-05-27 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-image-5.0.0-1006-azure (5.0.0-1006.6) @ disco | 2026-05-27 | ubuntu |
| redhat | kernel-0:3.10.0-1062.26.1.el7 | 2020-06-11 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-1127.rt56.1093.el7 | 2020-03-31 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-0:3.10.0-1127.el7 | 2020-03-31 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-0:4.18.0-80.11.1.el8_0 | 2019-09-12 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-80.11.1.rt9.156.el8_0 | 2019-09-12 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(9)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2019:2703MODERATE2019-02-19
RHSA-2019:2703 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2019:2741MODERATE2019-02-19
RHSA-2019:2741 — Moderate
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