CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-41072

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-07-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-07-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: wext: add extra SIOCSIWSCAN data check In 'cfg80211_wext_siwscan()', add extra check whether number of channels passed via 'ioctl(sock, SIOCSIWSCAN, ...)' doesn't exceed IW_MAX_FREQUENCIES and reject invalid request with -EINVAL otherwise.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 4.19.319) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.281) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.223) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.164) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.101) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.42) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.9.11) • linux linux kernel 6.10

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