CVE-2024-57997

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wcn36xx: fix channel survey memory allocation size KASAN reported a memory allocation issue in wcn->chan_survey due to incorrect size calculation. This commit uses kcalloc to allocate memory for wcn->chan_survey, ensuring proper initialization and preventing the use of uninitialized values when there are no frames on the channel.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e95f9c408ff8311f75eeabc8acf34a66670d8815

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae68efdff7a7a42ab251cac79d8713de6f0dbaa0

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64c4dcaeac1dc1030e47883b04a617ca9a4f164e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6200d947f050efdba4090dfefd8a01981363d954

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34cd2817708aec51ef1a6c007e0d6d5342a025d7

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-02-27

Updated: 2025-02-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/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