Bug 2278431 (CVE-2024-27048) - CVE-2024-27048 kernel: wifi: brcm80211: handle pmk_op allocation failure
Summary: CVE-2024-27048 kernel: wifi: brcm80211: handle pmk_op allocation failure
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-27048
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2278432
Blocks: 2278552
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-05-01 20:31 UTC by Zack Miele
Modified: 2025-04-16 03:11 UTC (History)
50 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kernel 6.6.23, kernel 6.7.11, kernel 6.8.2, kernel 6.9-rc1
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2024:3622 0 None None None 2024-06-05 09:03:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2024:3773 0 None None None 2024-06-10 15:12:07 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2024:3990 0 None None None 2024-06-20 01:14:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:3618 0 None None None 2024-06-05 00:32:49 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:3627 0 None None None 2024-06-05 10:03:34 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:9315 0 None None None 2024-11-12 09:25:52 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:3935 0 None None None 2025-04-16 03:11:18 UTC

Description Zack Miele 2024-05-01 20:31:22 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: brcm80211: handle pmk_op allocation failure

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-27048 to this issue.

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024050114-CVE-2024-27048-016f@gregkh/T
Comment 1 Zack Miele 2024-05-01 20:31:50 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2278432]
Comment 5 Michal Schmidt 2024-05-14 09:00:10 UTC 
It's a small (32 bytes) GFP_KERNEL memory allocation. It just won't fail in practice.
I suggest impact Low.
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2024-06-05 00:32:45 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:3618 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3618
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2024-06-05 10:03:30 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:3627 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3627
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2024-11-12 09:25:47 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:9315 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9315
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2025-04-16 03:11:15 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2025:3935 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3935
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