CVE-2024-53059 (GCVE-0-2024-53059)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-19 17:19 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:28
VLAI?
Title
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Fix response handling in iwl_mvm_send_recovery_cmd()
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: f130bb75d8817c560b48c4d1a0e5279968a0859d , < 9c98ee7ea463a838235e7a0e35851b38476364f2 (git)
Affected: f130bb75d8817c560b48c4d1a0e5279968a0859d , < 45a628911d3c68e024eed337054a0452b064f450 (git)
Affected: f130bb75d8817c560b48c4d1a0e5279968a0859d , < 3f45d590ccbae6dfd6faef54efe74c30bd85d3da (git)
Affected: f130bb75d8817c560b48c4d1a0e5279968a0859d , < 64d63557ded6ff3ce72b18ab87a6c4b1b652161c (git)
Affected: f130bb75d8817c560b48c4d1a0e5279968a0859d , < 3eb986c64c6bfb721950f9666a3b723cf65d043f (git)
Affected: f130bb75d8817c560b48c4d1a0e5279968a0859d , < 9480c3045f302f43f9910d2d556d6cf5a62c1822 (git)
Affected: f130bb75d8817c560b48c4d1a0e5279968a0859d , < 07a6e3b78a65f4b2796a8d0d4adb1a15a81edead (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.285 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.229 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.171 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.116 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.60 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.7 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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