CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-49929
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-10-21
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: avoid NULL pointer dereference
iwl_mvm_tx_skb_sta() and iwl_mvm_tx_mpdu() verify that the mvmvsta
pointer is not NULL.
It retrieves this pointer using iwl_mvm_sta_from_mac80211, which is
dereferencing the ieee80211_sta pointer.
If sta is NULL, iwl_mvm_sta_from_mac80211 will dereference a NULL
pointer.
Fix this by checking the sta pointer before retrieving the mvmsta
from it. If sta is not NULL, then mvmsta isn't either.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 6.6.55)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.10.14)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.11 < 6.11.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/557a6cd847645e667f3b362560bd7e7c09aac284 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6dcadb2ed3b76623ab96e3e7fbeda1a374d01c28 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0b4f5d94934c290479180868a32c15ba36a6d9e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbc6fc9cfcde151ff5eadaefdc6155f99579384f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdbf51bfa4b0411820806777da36d93d49bc49a1 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html lists.debian.org