CVE-2024-48873 (GCVE-0-2024-48873)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-11 12:25
Modified
2025-10-01 19:57
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw89: check return value of ieee80211_probereq_get() for RNR The return value of ieee80211_probereq_get() might be NULL, so check it before using to avoid NULL pointer access. Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1529805 ("Dereference null return value")
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Linux Linux Version: c6aa9a9c47252ac7b07ed6d10459027e2f2a2de0
Version: c6aa9a9c47252ac7b07ed6d10459027e2f2a2de0
Version: c6aa9a9c47252ac7b07ed6d10459027e2f2a2de0
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