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CVE-2024-40929

kernel: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: check n_ssids before accessing the ssids

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.4

CVSS 3.1

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Published · July 12, 2024

Updated · October 31, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: check n_ssids before accessing the ssids

In some versions of cfg80211, the ssids poinet might be a valid one even though n_ssids is 0. Accessing the pointer in this case will cuase an out-of-bound access. Fix this by checking n_ssids first.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 4.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read