CVE-2024-43879

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

21/08/2024

Last modified:

03/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: handle 2x996 RU allocation in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he() Currently NL80211_RATE_INFO_HE_RU_ALLOC_2x996 is not handled in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he(), leading to below warning: kernel: invalid HE MCS: bw:6, ru:6 kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2312 at net/wireless/util.c:1501 cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he+0x22b/0x270 [cfg80211] Fix it by handling 2x996 RU allocation in the same way as 160 MHz bandwidth.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.19 (including)	4.19.320 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.20 (including)	5.4.282 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.224 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.165 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.103 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.44 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.10.3 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2024-43879

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools