CVE-2024-57997 (GCVE-0-2024-57997)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-27 02:07
Modified
2026-08-05 11:47
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wcn36xx: fix channel survey memory allocation size KASAN reported a memory allocation issue in wcn->chan_survey due to incorrect size calculation. This commit uses kcalloc to allocate memory for wcn->chan_survey, ensuring proper initialization and preventing the use of uninitialized values when there are no frames on the channel.
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Linux Linux Version: 29696e0aa413b9d56558731aae3806d7cff48d36
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