Bug 2300449 (CVE-2024-41072) - CVE-2024-41072 kernel: wifi: cfg80211: wext: add extra SIOCSIWSCAN data check
Summary: CVE-2024-41072 kernel: wifi: cfg80211: wext: add extra SIOCSIWSCAN data check
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-41072
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2301636
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-07-29 15:45 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2024-08-19 04:55 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kernel 4.19.319, kernel 5.4.281, kernel 5.10.223, kernel 5.15.164, kernel 6.1.101, kernel 6.6.42, kernel 6.9.11, kernel 6.10
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-07-29 15:45:29 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: cfg80211: wext: add extra SIOCSIWSCAN data check

In 'cfg80211_wext_siwscan()', add extra check whether number of
channels passed via 'ioctl(sock, SIOCSIWSCAN, ...)' doesn't exceed
IW_MAX_FREQUENCIES and reject invalid request with -EINVAL otherwise.
Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-07-30 13:40:44 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024072909-CVE-2024-41072-86de@gregkh/T
Comment 2 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-07-30 13:41:06 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2301636]
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