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Tracker / CVE-2024-43879

CVE-2024-43879

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: handle 2x996 RU allocation in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he() Currently NL80211_RATE_INFO_HE_RU_ALLOC_2x996 is not handled in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he(), leading to below warning: kernel: invalid HE MCS: bw:6, ru:6 kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2312 at net/wireless/util.c:1501 cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he+0x22b/0x270 [cfg80211] Fix it by handling 2x996 RU allocation in the same way as 160 MHz bandwidth.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 4.19 → 4.19.320
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.282
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.165
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.103
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.224
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.44
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.10.3

Analysis

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