CVE-2024-57899

wifi: mac80211: fix mbss changed flags corruption on 32 bit systems

State
Published
Severity
7.6 High
Published
Jan 15, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Jan 11, 2025

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Description

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

wifi: mac80211: fix mbss changed flags corruption on 32 bit systems

On 32-bit systems, the size of an unsigned long is 4 bytes, while a u64 is 8 bytes. Therefore, when using or_each_set_bit(bit, &bits, sizeof(changed) * BITS_PER_BYTE), the code is incorrectly searching for a bit in a 32-bit variable that is expected to be 64 bits in size, leading to incorrect bit finding.

Solution: Ensure that the size of the bits variable is correctly adjusted for each architecture.

Call Trace: ? show_regs+0x54/0x58 ? __warn+0x6b/0xd4 ? ieee80211_link_info_change_notify+0xcc/0xd4 [mac80211] ? report_bug+0x113/0x150 ? exc_overflow+0x30/0x30 ? handle_bug+0x27/0x44 ? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x50 ? handle_exception+0xf6/0xf6 ? exc_overflow+0x30/0x30 ? ieee80211_link_info_change_notify+0xcc/0xd4 [mac80211] ? exc_overflow+0x30/0x30 ? ieee80211_link_info_change_notify+0xcc/0xd4 [mac80211] ? ieee80211_mesh_work+0xff/0x260 [mac80211] ? cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x72/0x98 [cfg80211] ? process_one_work+0xf1/0x1fc ? worker_thread+0x2c0/0x3b4 ? kthread+0xc7/0xf0 ? mod_delayed_work_on+0x4c/0x4c ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x14/0x14 ? ret_from_fork+0x24/0x38 ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x14/0x14 ? ret_from_fork_asm+0xf/0x14 ? entry_INT80_32+0xf0/0xf0

[restore no-op path for no changes]

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 15ddba5f43114c1fd9cd83676e04a9e1acf8e37f to before 86772872f9f5097cd03d0e1c6813238bd38c250bAffected
  • 15ddba5f43114c1fd9cd83676e04a9e1acf8e37f to before 36b739637d7042843f9df57212ecee6ed6e0d4b2Affected
  • 15ddba5f43114c1fd9cd83676e04a9e1acf8e37f to before 49dba1ded8dd5a6a12748631403240b2ab245c34Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.5Affected
  • before 6.5Not affected
  • 6.6.70 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.9 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13 and laterNot affected

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