Bug 2327349 (CVE-2024-53055) - CVE-2024-53055 kernel: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix 6 GHz scan construction
Summary: CVE-2024-53055 kernel: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix 6 GHz scan construction
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-53055
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: 2327473
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-11-19 18:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-13 08:35 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:6966 0 None None None 2025-05-13 08:35:54 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-11-19 18:02:22 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix 6 GHz scan construction

If more than 255 colocated APs exist for the set of all
APs found during 2.4/5 GHz scanning, then the 6 GHz scan
construction will loop forever since the loop variable
has type u8, which can never reach the number found when
that's bigger than 255, and is stored in a u32 variable.
Also move it into the loops to have a smaller scope.

Using a u32 there is fine, we limit the number of APs in
the scan list and each has a limit on the number of RNR
entries due to the frame size. With a limit of 1000 scan
results, a frame size upper bound of 4096 (really it's
more like ~2300) and a TBTT entry size of at least 11,
we get an upper bound for the number of ~372k, well in
the bounds of a u32.

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:35:53 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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