vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-49857: kernel: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: set the cipher for secured NDP ranging

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

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

wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: set the cipher for secured NDP ranging

The cipher pointer is not set, but is derefereced trying to set its
content, which leads to a NULL pointer dereference.
Fix it by pointing to the cipher parameter before dereferencing.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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