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User Interaction
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Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
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CVE-2024-50008

Disclosure Date: October 21, 2024 •
CVE-2024-50008 CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mwifiex: Fix memcpy() field-spanning write warning in mwifiex_cmd_802_11_scan_ext()

Replace one-element array with a flexible-array member in
struct host_cmd_ds_802_11_scan_ext.

With this, fix the following warning:

elo 16 17:51:58 surfacebook kernel: ——————[ cut here ]——————
elo 16 17:51:58 surfacebook kernel: memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 243) of single field “ext_scan->tlv_buffer” at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:2239 (size 1)
elo 16 17:51:58 surfacebook kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 498 at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:2239 mwifiex_cmd_802_11_scan_ext+0x83/0x90 [mwifiex]

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Offensive Application
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Utility Class
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Ports
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OS
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Vulnerable Versions
Linux b55c8848fdc8
Linux not down converted
Prerequisites
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Discovered By
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Metasploit Module
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Reporter
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Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel
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