CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-49938

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-10-21 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-10-21
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
Weaknesses
CWE-824

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k_htc: Use __skb_set_length() for resetting urb before resubmit Syzbot points out that skb_trim() has a sanity check on the existing length of the skb, which can be uninitialised in some error paths. The intent here is clearly just to reset the length to zero before resubmitting, so switch to calling __skb_set_length(skb, 0) directly. In addition, __skb_set_length() already contains a call to skb_reset_tail_pointer(), so remove the redundant call. The syzbot report came from ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb(), but there's a similar usage of skb_trim() in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb(), change both while we're at it.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 5.10.227) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.168) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.113) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.55) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.10.14) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.11 < 6.11.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-824 Access of Uninitialized Pointer weakness

References