Release Date: | 2024-12-27 | |
Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: nl80211: fix NL80211_ATTR_MLO_LINK_ID off-by-one
Since the netlink attribute range validation provides inclusive
checking, the *max* of attribute NL80211_ATTR_MLO_LINK_ID should be
IEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS - 1 otherwise causing an off-by-one.
One crash stack for demonstration:
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BUG: KASAN: wild-memory-access in ieee80211_tx_control_port+0x3b6/0xca0 net/mac80211/tx.c:5939
Read of size 6 at addr 001102080000000c by task fuzzer.386/9508
CPU: 1 PID: 9508 Comm: syz.1.386 Not tainted 6.1.70 #2
Call Trace:
See more information about CVE-2024-56663 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
Base Score: | 7.1 |
Vector String: | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
Version: | 3.1 |
Attack Vector: | Local |
Attack Complexity: | Low |
Privileges Required: | Low |
User Interaction: | None |
Scope: | Unchanged |
Confidentiality Impact: | High |
Integrity Impact: | None |
Availability Impact: | High |
Platform | Errata | Release Date |
Oracle Linux version 10 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20480 | 2025-07-17 |
Oracle Linux version 10 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20530 | 2025-08-18 |
Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel) | ELSA-2025-6966 | 2025-05-16 |
Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20480 | 2025-07-17 |
Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20530 | 2025-08-18 |
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