In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: check n_ssids before accessing the ssids In some versions of cfg80211, the ssids poinet might be a valid one even though n_ssids is 0. Accessing the pointer in this case will cuase an out-of-bound access. Fix this by checking n_ssids first.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Redhat
  • Enterprise Linux

No data.

Package CPE Advisory Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.22.1.rt7.363.el8_10 cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv RHSA-2024:7001 2024-09-24T00:00:00Z
kernel-0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 RHSA-2024:7000 2024-09-24T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
kernel-0:5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4 cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 RHSA-2024:5928 2024-08-28T00:00:00Z
kernel-0:5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 RHSA-2024:5928 2024-08-28T00:00:00Z
References
Link Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29a18d56bd64b95bd10bda4afda512558471382a cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c4771091ea8016c8601399078916f722dd8833b cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60d62757df30b74bf397a2847a6db7385c6ee281 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62e007bdeb91c6879a4652c3426aef1cd9d2937b cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e719ae3abad60e245ce248ba3f08148f375a614 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f777792952d03bbaf8329fdfa99393a5a33e2640 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024071215-CVE-2024-40929-e1cb@gregkh/T cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40929 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40929 cve-icon
History

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 06:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 22:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2024-07-12T12:25:08.434Z

Updated: 2024-11-05T09:33:21.376Z

Reserved: 2024-07-12T12:17:45.583Z

Link: CVE-2024-40929

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-09-11T12:42:14.230Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-07-12T13:15:15.610

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:31:53.453

Link: CVE-2024-40929

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-07-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-40929 - Bugzilla