CVE-2024-56539

wifi: mwifiex: Fix memcpy() field-spanning write warning in mwifiex_config_scan()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 27, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 27, 2024

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Description

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

wifi: mwifiex: Fix memcpy() field-spanning write warning in mwifiex_config_scan()

Replace one-element array with a flexible-array member in `struct mwifiex_ie_types_wildcard_ssid_params` to fix the following warning on a MT8173 Chromebook (mt8173-elm-hana):

[ 356.775250] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 356.784543] memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 6) of single field "wildcard_ssid_tlv->ssid" at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:904 (size 1) [ 356.813403] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 742 at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:904 mwifiex_scan_networks+0x4fc/0xf28 [mwifiex]

The "(size 6)" above is exactly the length of the SSID of the network this device was connected to. The source of the warning looks like:

ssid_len = user_scan_in->ssid_list[i].ssid_len; [...] memcpy(wildcard_ssid_tlv->ssid, user_scan_in->ssid_list[i].ssid, ssid_len);

There is a #define WILDCARD_SSID_TLV_MAX_SIZE that uses sizeof() on this struct, but it already didn't account for the size of the one-element array, so it doesn't need to be changed.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 5e6e3a92b9a4c9416b17f468fa5c7fa2233b8b4e to before a09760c513ae0f98c7082a1deace7fb6284ee866Affected
  • 5e6e3a92b9a4c9416b17f468fa5c7fa2233b8b4e to before 1de0ca1d7320a645ba2ee5954f64be08935b002aAffected
  • 5e6e3a92b9a4c9416b17f468fa5c7fa2233b8b4e to before 5fa329c44e1e635da2541eab28b6cdb8464fc8d1Affected
  • 5e6e3a92b9a4c9416b17f468fa5c7fa2233b8b4e to before 581261b2d6fdb4237b24fa13f5a5f87bf2861f2cAffected
  • 5e6e3a92b9a4c9416b17f468fa5c7fa2233b8b4e to before b466746cfb6be43f9a1457bbee52ade397fb23eaAffected
  • 5e6e3a92b9a4c9416b17f468fa5c7fa2233b8b4e to before c4698ef8c42e02782604bf4f8a489dbf6b0c1365Affected
  • 5e6e3a92b9a4c9416b17f468fa5c7fa2233b8b4e to before e2de22e4b6213371d9e76f74a10ce817572a8d74Affected
  • 5e6e3a92b9a4c9416b17f468fa5c7fa2233b8b4e to before d7774910c5583e61c5fe2571280366624ef48036Affected
  • 5e6e3a92b9a4c9416b17f468fa5c7fa2233b8b4e to before d241a139c2e9f8a479f25c75ebd5391e6a448500Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.0Affected
  • before 3.0Not affected
  • 4.19.325 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.287 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.231 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.174 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.120 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.64 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.11.11 through 6.11.*Not affected
  • 6.12.2 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13 and laterNot affected

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