CVE-2024-46755
Publication date:
18/09/2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
wifi: mwifiex: Do not return unused priv in mwifiex_get_priv_by_id()<br />
<br />
mwifiex_get_priv_by_id() returns the priv pointer corresponding to<br />
the bss_num and bss_type, but without checking if the priv is actually<br />
currently in use.<br />
Unused priv pointers do not have a wiphy attached to them which can<br />
lead to NULL pointer dereferences further down the callstack. Fix<br />
this by returning only used priv pointers which have priv->bss_mode<br />
set to something else than NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED.<br />
<br />
Said NULL pointer dereference happened when an Accesspoint was started<br />
with wpa_supplicant -i mlan0 with this config:<br />
<br />
network={<br />
ssid="somessid"<br />
mode=2<br />
frequency=2412<br />
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK WPA-PSK-SHA256<br />
proto=RSN<br />
group=CCMP<br />
pairwise=CCMP<br />
psk="12345678"<br />
}<br />
<br />
When waiting for the AP to be established, interrupting wpa_supplicant<br />
with and starting it again this happens:<br />
<br />
| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000140<br />
| Mem abort info:<br />
| ESR = 0x0000000096000004<br />
| EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits<br />
| SET = 0, FnV = 0<br />
| EA = 0, S1PTW = 0<br />
| FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault<br />
| Data abort info:<br />
| ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000<br />
| CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0<br />
| GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0<br />
| user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000046d96000<br />
| [0000000000000140] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000<br />
| Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP<br />
| Modules linked in: caam_jr caamhash_desc spidev caamalg_desc crypto_engine authenc libdes mwifiex_sdio<br />
+mwifiex crct10dif_ce cdc_acm onboard_usb_hub fsl_imx8_ddr_perf imx8m_ddrc rtc_ds1307 lm75 rtc_snvs<br />
+imx_sdma caam imx8mm_thermal spi_imx error imx_cpufreq_dt fuse ip_tables x_tables ipv6<br />
| CPU: 0 PID: 8 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.9.0-00007-g937242013fce-dirty #18<br />
| Hardware name: somemachine (DT)<br />
| Workqueue: events sdio_irq_work<br />
| pstate: 00000005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)<br />
| pc : mwifiex_get_cfp+0xd8/0x15c [mwifiex]<br />
| lr : mwifiex_get_cfp+0x34/0x15c [mwifiex]<br />
| sp : ffff8000818b3a70<br />
| x29: ffff8000818b3a70 x28: ffff000006bfd8a5 x27: 0000000000000004<br />
| x26: 000000000000002c x25: 0000000000001511 x24: 0000000002e86bc9<br />
| x23: ffff000006bfd996 x22: 0000000000000004 x21: ffff000007bec000<br />
| x20: 000000000000002c x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 0000000000000000<br />
| x17: 000000040044ffff x16: 00500072b5503510 x15: ccc283740681e517<br />
| x14: 0201000101006d15 x13: 0000000002e8ff43 x12: 002c01000000ffb1<br />
| x11: 0100000000000000 x10: 02e8ff43002c0100 x9 : 0000ffb100100157<br />
| x8 : ffff000003d20000 x7 : 00000000000002f1 x6 : 00000000ffffe124<br />
| x5 : 0000000000000001 x4 : 0000000000000003 x3 : 0000000000000000<br />
| x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0001000000011001 x0 : 0000000000000000<br />
| Call trace:<br />
| mwifiex_get_cfp+0xd8/0x15c [mwifiex]<br />
| mwifiex_parse_single_response_buf+0x1d0/0x504 [mwifiex]<br />
| mwifiex_handle_event_ext_scan_report+0x19c/0x2f8 [mwifiex]<br />
| mwifiex_process_sta_event+0x298/0xf0c [mwifiex]<br />
| mwifiex_process_event+0x110/0x238 [mwifiex]<br />
| mwifiex_main_process+0x428/0xa44 [mwifiex]<br />
| mwifiex_sdio_interrupt+0x64/0x12c [mwifiex_sdio]<br />
| process_sdio_pending_irqs+0x64/0x1b8<br />
| sdio_irq_work+0x4c/0x7c<br />
| process_one_work+0x148/0x2a0<br />
| worker_thread+0x2fc/0x40c<br />
| kthread+0x110/0x114<br />
| ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20<br />
| Code: a94153f3 a8c37bfd d50323bf d65f03c0 (f940a000)<br />
| ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Severity CVSS v4.0: Pending analysis
Last modification:
03/11/2025