Bug 2320240 (CVE-2024-47738) - CVE-2024-47738 kernel: wifi: mac80211: don't use rate mask for offchannel TX either
Summary: CVE-2024-47738 kernel: wifi: mac80211: don't use rate mask for offchannel...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-47738
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2320381
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-10-21 13:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-13 08:29 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:6966 0 None None None 2025-05-13 08:29:19 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-10-21 13:04:44 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: don't use rate mask for offchannel TX either

Like the commit ab9177d83c04 ("wifi: mac80211: don't use rate mask for
scanning"), ignore incorrect settings to avoid no supported rate warning
reported by syzbot.

The syzbot did bisect and found cause is commit 9df66d5b9f45 ("cfg80211:
fix default HE tx bitrate mask in 2G band"), which however corrects
bitmask of HE MCS and recognizes correctly settings of empty legacy rate
plus HE MCS rate instead of returning -EINVAL.

As suggestions [1], follow the change of SCAN TX to consider this case of
offchannel TX as well.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/6ab2dc9c3afe753ca6fdcdd1421e7a1f47e87b84.camel@sipsolutions.net/T/#m2ac2a6d2be06a37c9c47a3d8a44b4f647ed4f024

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:29:18 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:6966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966


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