CVE-2024-43879

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxc4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f < 45d20a1c54be4f3173862c7b950d4468447814c9affected
LinuxLinuxc4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f < b289ebb0516526cb4abae081b7ec29fd4fa1209daffected
LinuxLinuxc4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f < 2e201b3d162c6c49417c438ffb30b58c9f85769faffected
LinuxLinuxc4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f < 576c64622649f3ec07e97bac8fec8b8a2ef4d086affected
LinuxLinuxc4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f < 16ad67e73309db0c20cc2a651992bd01c05e6b27affected
LinuxLinuxc4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f < 67b5f1054197e4f5553047759c15c1d67d4c8142affected
LinuxLinuxc4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f < 19eaf4f2f5a981f55a265242ada2bf92b0c742ddaffected
LinuxLinuxc4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f < bcbd771cd5d68c0c52567556097d75f9fc4e7cd6affected
LinuxLinux4.19affected
LinuxLinux0 < 4.19unaffected
LinuxLinux4.19.320 <= 4.19.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.4.282 <= 5.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.224 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.165 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.103 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.44 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.10.3 <= 6.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.11 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

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