CVE-2024-35937 (GCVE-0-2024-35937)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-19 10:10
Modified
2026-08-05 11:31
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: check A-MSDU format more carefully If it looks like there's another subframe in the A-MSDU but the header isn't fully there, we can end up reading data out of bounds, only to discard later. Make this a bit more careful and check if the subframe header can even be present.
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Linux Linux Version: 966d5c2c22edcc0ab3d519af39f91a29329c979a
Version: 6e4c0d0460bd32ca9244dff3ba2d2da27235de11
Version: 6e4c0d0460bd32ca9244dff3ba2d2da27235de11
Version: 6e4c0d0460bd32ca9244dff3ba2d2da27235de11
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