CVE-2024-43879
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 12% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16ad67e73309db0c20cc2a651992bd01c05e6b27
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19eaf4f2f5a981f55a265242ada2bf92b0c742dd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e201b3d162c6c49417c438ffb30b58c9f85769f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45d20a1c54be4f3173862c7b950d4468447814c9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/576c64622649f3ec07e97bac8fec8b8a2ef4d086