CVE-2024-53055: medium-severity vulnerability in Linux
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix 6 GHz scan construction
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.5epss 0.3%
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix 6 GHz scan construction
If more than 255 colocated APs exist for the set of all
APs found during 2.4/5 GHz scanning, then the 6 GHz scan
construction will loop forever since the loop variable
has type u8, which can never reach the number found when
that's bigger than 255, and is stored in a u32 variable.
Also move it into the loops to have a smaller scope.
Using a u32 there is fine, we limit the number of APs in
the scan list and each has a limit on the number of RNR
entries due to the frame size. With a limit of 1000 scan
results, a frame size upper bound of 4096 (really it's
more like ~2300) and a TBTT entry size of at least 11,
we get an upper bound for the number of ~372k, well in
the bounds of a u32.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ac15e5a8f42fed5d90ed9e1197600913678c50fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ccd5badadab2d586e91546bf5af3deda07fef1fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7245012f0f496162dd95d888ed2ceb5a35170f1ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cde8a7eb5c6762264ff0f4433358e0a0d250c875https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc621e7a043de346c33bd7ae7e2e0c651d6152efhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html