CVE-2024-40941

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't read past the mfuart notifcation In case the firmware sends a notification that claims it has more data than it has, we will read past that was allocated for the notification. Remove the print of the buffer, we won't see it by default. If needed, we can see the content with tracing. This was reported by KFENCE.

CVSS 3.1

5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 33% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

Published

2024-07-12

Modified

2026-10-15

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• linux:linux_kernel

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15b37c6fab9d5e40ac399fa1c725118588ed649c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46c59a25337049a2a230ce7f7c3b9f21d0aaaad7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bb95f4535489ed830cf9b34b0a891e384d1aee4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6532f18e66b384b8d4b7e5c9caca042faaa9e8de
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65686118845d427df27ee83a6ddd4885596b0805

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