CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-56539
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-12-27
- 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: mwifiex: Fix memcpy() field-spanning write warning in mwifiex_config_scan()
Replace one-element array with a flexible-array member in `struct
mwifiex_ie_types_wildcard_ssid_params` to fix the following warning
on a MT8173 Chromebook (mt8173-elm-hana):
[ 356.775250] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 356.784543] memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 6) of single field "wildcard_ssid_tlv->ssid" at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:904 (size 1)
[ 356.813403] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 742 at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:904 mwifiex_scan_networks+0x4fc/0xf28 [mwifiex]
The "(size 6)" above is exactly the length of the SSID of the network
this device was connected to. The source of the warning looks like:
ssid_len = user_scan_in->ssid_list[i].ssid_len;
[...]
memcpy(wildcard_ssid_tlv->ssid,
user_scan_in->ssid_list[i].ssid, ssid_len);
There is a #define WILDCARD_SSID_TLV_MAX_SIZE that uses sizeof() on this
struct, but it already didn't account for the size of the one-element
array, so it doesn't need to be changed.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.0 < 4.19.325)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.287)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.231)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.174)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.120)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.64)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.11.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12 < 6.12.2)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1de0ca1d7320a645ba2ee5954f64be08935b002a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/581261b2d6fdb4237b24fa13f5a5f87bf2861f2c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fa329c44e1e635da2541eab28b6cdb8464fc8d1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a09760c513ae0f98c7082a1deace7fb6284ee866 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b466746cfb6be43f9a1457bbee52ade397fb23ea Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4698ef8c42e02782604bf4f8a489dbf6b0c1365 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d241a139c2e9f8a479f25c75ebd5391e6a448500 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7774910c5583e61c5fe2571280366624ef48036 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2de22e4b6213371d9e76f74a10ce817572a8d74 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html lists.debian.org