CVE-2024-43879 (GCVE-0-2024-43879)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-21 00:06 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:06
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Title
wifi: cfg80211: handle 2x996 RU allocation in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he()
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Affected: c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f , < 45d20a1c54be4f3173862c7b950d4468447814c9 (git)
Affected: c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f , < b289ebb0516526cb4abae081b7ec29fd4fa1209d (git)
Affected: c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f , < 2e201b3d162c6c49417c438ffb30b58c9f85769f (git)
Affected: c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f , < 576c64622649f3ec07e97bac8fec8b8a2ef4d086 (git)
Affected: c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f , < 16ad67e73309db0c20cc2a651992bd01c05e6b27 (git)
Affected: c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f , < 67b5f1054197e4f5553047759c15c1d67d4c8142 (git)
Affected: c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f , < 19eaf4f2f5a981f55a265242ada2bf92b0c742dd (git)
Affected: c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f , < bcbd771cd5d68c0c52567556097d75f9fc4e7cd6 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.320 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.282 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.224 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.165 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.103 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.44 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10.3 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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