CVE-2024-43879

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: handle 2x996 RU allocation in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he() Currently NL80211_RATE_INFO_HE_RU_ALLOC_2x996 is not handled in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he(), leading to below warning: kernel: invalid HE MCS: bw:6, ru:6 kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2312 at net/wireless/util.c:1501 cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he+0x22b/0x270 [cfg80211] Fix it by handling 2x996 RU allocation in the same way as 160 MHz bandwidth.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcbd771cd5d68c0c52567556097d75f9fc4e7cd6

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b289ebb0516526cb4abae081b7ec29fd4fa1209d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67b5f1054197e4f5553047759c15c1d67d4c8142

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/576c64622649f3ec07e97bac8fec8b8a2ef4d086

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45d20a1c54be4f3173862c7b950d4468447814c9

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e201b3d162c6c49417c438ffb30b58c9f85769f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19eaf4f2f5a981f55a265242ada2bf92b0c742dd

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16ad67e73309db0c20cc2a651992bd01c05e6b27

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-08-21

Updated: 2024-08-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium