CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-43841

3.3 LOW Published 2024-08-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-08-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: virt_wifi: avoid reporting connection success with wrong SSID When user issues a connection with a different SSID than the one virt_wifi has advertised, the __cfg80211_connect_result() will trigger the warning: WARN_ON(bss_not_found). The issue is because the connection code in virt_wifi does not check the SSID from user space (it only checks the BSSID), and virt_wifi will call cfg80211_connect_result() with WLAN_STATUS_SUCCESS even if the SSID is different from the one virt_wifi has advertised. Eventually cfg80211 won't be able to find the cfg80211_bss and generate the warning. Fixed it by checking the SSID (from user space) in the connection code.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.0 < 6.1.103) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.44) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.10.3)

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