Bug 1228236 (CVE-2024-40930)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2024-40930: kernel: wifi: cfg80211: validate HE operation element parsing
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Kernel Bugs <kernel-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	rfrohl
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/413857/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-40930:5.5:(AV:L/AC:L/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 2024-07-23 08:08:24 UTC

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

wifi: cfg80211: validate HE operation element parsing

Validate that the HE operation element has the correct
length before parsing it.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-40930
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40930
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4dc3a3893dae5a7f73e5809273aca0f1f3548d55
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f15e3e13e14cc5ae8f950c16efe706add18ac8e2
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2024/CVE-2024-40930.mbox
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297514

Comment 1 Robert Frohl 2024-07-23 09:40:58 UTC

does not affect any SUSE kernels, closing