1228236 – (CVE-2024-40930) VUL-0: CVE-2024-40930: kernel: wifi: cfg80211: validate HE operation element parsing

Bug 1228236 (CVE-2024-40930) - VUL-0: CVE-2024-40930: kernel: wifi: cfg80211: validate HE operation element parsing

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2024-40930: kernel: wifi: cfg80211: validate HE operation element ...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	CVE-2024-40930

Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P3 - Medium Severity: Normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Kernel Bugs
QA Contact:	Security Team bot

URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/413857/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-40930:5.5:(AV:...
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Reported:	2024-07-23 08:08 UTC by SMASH SMASH
Modified:	2024-07-23 09:40 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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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