CVE-2024-43841: vulnerability in Linux
wifi: virt_wifi: avoid reporting connection success with wrong SSID
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 90% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: virt_wifi: avoid reporting connection success with wrong SSID
When user issues a connection with a different SSID than the one
virt_wifi has advertised, the __cfg80211_connect_result() will
trigger the warning: WARN_ON(bss_not_found).
The issue is because the connection code in virt_wifi does not
check the SSID from user space (it only checks the BSSID), and
virt_wifi will call cfg80211_connect_result() with WLAN_STATUS_SUCCESS
even if the SSID is different from the one virt_wifi has advertised.
Eventually cfg80211 won't be able to find the cfg80211_bss and generate
the warning.
Fixed it by checking the SSID (from user space) in the connection code.
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05c4488a0e446c6ccde9f22b573950665e1cd414https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36e92b5edc8e0daa18e9325674313802ce3fbc29https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/416d3c1538df005195721a200b0371d39636e05dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93e898a264b4e0a475552ba9f99a016eb43ef942https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/994fc2164a03200c3bf42fb45b3d49d9d6d33a4dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5d14b0c6716fad7f0c94ac6e1d6f60a49f985c7https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3cc85a10abc8eae48988336cdd3689ab92581b3https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00003.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html