Riskcovery

CVE-2024-49857

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

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Oct 21, 2024

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 626be4bf99f6250cd66da5d311a72ad7455c5a64 to before b3322a6d6aa9bc17b395c4b38d3b97578887aa8aAffected
  • 626be4bf99f6250cd66da5d311a72ad7455c5a64 to before a949075d4bbf1ca83ccdeaa6ef4ac2ce7526c5f4Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.11Affected
  • before 6.11Not affected
  • 6.11.2 through 6.11.*Not affected
  • 6.12 and laterNot affected

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