CVE-2024-40941
kernel: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't read past the mfuart notifcation
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
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: don't read past the mfuart notifcation
In case the firmware sends a notification that claims it has more data than it has, we will read past that was allocated for the notification. Remove the print of the buffer, we won't see it by default. If needed, we can see the content with tracing.
This was reported by KFENCE.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read