wifi: nl80211: disallow setting special AP channel widths (Linux Linux)

CVE-2024-43912
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.21 % · percentile 11 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: nl80211: disallow setting special AP channel widths Setting the AP channel width is meant for use with the normal 20/40/... MHz channel width progression, and switching around in S1G or narrow channels isn't supported. Disallow that.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected e16821bcfb364b0c41142db275dc74b39fa42c30 < 3d42f2125f6c89e1e71c87b9f23412afddbba45e ; affected e16821bcfb364b0c41142db275dc74b39fa42c30 < c6ea738e3feb407a3283197d9a25d0788f4f3cee ; affected e16821bcfb364b0c41142db275dc74b39fa42c30 < ac3bf6e47fd8da9bfe8027e1acfe0282a91584fc ; affected e16821bcfb364b0c41142db275dc74b39fa42c30 < 23daf1b4c91db9b26f8425cc7039cf96d22ccbfe
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.16 ; unaffected 0 < 3.16 ; unaffected 6.1.105 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.46 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.10.5 ≤ 6.10.* ; unaffected 6.11 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD