Bug 1226751 (CVE-2024-38609)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2024-38609: kernel: wifi: mt76: connac: check for null before dereferencing
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	camila.matos, gabriel.bertazi
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/411456/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-38609:4.7:(AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description SMASH SMASH 2024-06-21 11:39:27 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mt76: connac: check for null before dereferencing

The wcid can be NULL. It should be checked for validity before
dereferencing it to avoid crash.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-38609
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2024/CVE-2024-38609.mbox
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e469218765b2781fb968778bd13595acec181a0e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb47c7be0e93dd5acda078163799401ac3a78e10
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38609
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293355