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User Interaction
None
Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
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CVE-2024-41071

Disclosure Date: July 29, 2024
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Description

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

wifi: mac80211: Avoid address calculations via out of bounds array indexing

req->n_channels must be set before req->channels[] can be used.

This patch fixes one of the issues encountered in [1].

[ 83.964255] UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in net/mac80211/scan.c:364:4
[ 83.964258] index 0 is out of range for type ‘struct ieee80211_channel *[]’
[…]
[ 83.964264] Call Trace:
[ 83.964267] <TASK>
[ 83.964269] dump_stack_lvl+0x3f/0xc0
[ 83.964274] __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0xec/0x110
[ 83.964278] ieee80211_prep_hw_scan+0x2db/0x4b0
[ 83.964281] __ieee80211_start_scan+0x601/0x990
[ 83.964291] nl80211_trigger_scan+0x874/0x980
[ 83.964295] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xe8/0x160
[ 83.964298] genl_rcv_msg+0x240/0x270
[…]

[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218810

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
7.8 High
Impact Score:
5.9
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
High
Integrity (I):
High
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel
Technical Analysis