CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-43879

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-08-21 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-08-21
Last modified
2026-10-15
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: handle 2x996 RU allocation in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he() Currently NL80211_RATE_INFO_HE_RU_ALLOC_2x996 is not handled in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he(), leading to below warning: kernel: invalid HE MCS: bw:6, ru:6 kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2312 at net/wireless/util.c:1501 cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he+0x22b/0x270 [cfg80211] Fix it by handling 2x996 RU allocation in the same way as 160 MHz bandwidth.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.19 < 4.19.320) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.282) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.224) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.165) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.103) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.44) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.10.3)

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