CVE-2024-53059

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Fix response handling in iwl_mvm_send_recovery_cmd() 1. The size of the response packet is not validated. 2. The response buffer is not freed. Resolve these issues by switching to iwl_mvm_send_cmd_status(), which handles both size validation and frees the buffer.

CVSS 3.1

7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

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

Published

2024-11-19

Modified

2026-10-15

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• linux:linux_kernel

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07a6e3b78a65f4b2796a8d0d4adb1a15a81edead
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3eb986c64c6bfb721950f9666a3b723cf65d043f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f45d590ccbae6dfd6faef54efe74c30bd85d3da
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45a628911d3c68e024eed337054a0452b064f450
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64d63557ded6ff3ce72b18ab87a6c4b1b652161c

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