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Red Hat: CVE-2024-41071: kernel: wifi: mac80211: Avoid address calculations via out of bounds array indexing (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2024-41071: kernel: wifi: mac80211: Avoid address calculations via out of bounds array indexing (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/29/2024
Created
09/26/2024
Added
09/25/2024
Modified
10/07/2024

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

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-kernel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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