Bug 2293431 (CVE-2024-38562)

Summary:	CVE-2024-38562 kernel: wifi: nl80211: Avoid address calculations via out of bounds array indexing
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Patrick Del Bello <pdelbell>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dfreiber, drow, jburrell, mbenatto, vkumar
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	kernel 6.6.33, kernel 6.8.12, kernel 6.9.3, kernel 6.10-rc1	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A possible out of bounds array indexing in net/wireless/nl80211.c may lead to a crash.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Blocks:	2293462

Description Patrick Del Bello 2024-06-20 15:34:26 UTC

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

wifi: nl80211: Avoid address calculations via out of bounds array indexing

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-38562 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024061954-CVE-2024-38562-21d9@gregkh/T

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-24 02:49:56 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:6997 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6997