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# sk167452 - Check Point response to CVE-2020-12465 (Mediatek MT76 driver)

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk167452 |
| Date Created | 2020-06-16 |
| Last Modified | 2021-12-14 |
| Technical Level | General |
| Products | Security Gateway, Security Management Server |
| Versions | R81.10 (EOS), R81 (EOS), R81.10 (EOS), R81 (EOS) |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- A memory overflow and data corruption flaw were found in *the Mediatek MT76 driver module for WiFi* .  
An oversized packet with too many rx fragments causes an overflow and corruption in memory of adjacent pages.  
A local attacker with a special user or root privileges can cause a denial of service or a leak of internal kernel information.  

* [CVE-2020-12465](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12465)

## Solution

**Check Point products are not vulnerable to this CVE.**

This driver is not used in Check Point products.

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