CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-50008

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.25%

15th percentile - higher than 15% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the wifi: mwifiex driver replaces a one-element array with a flexible-array member in struct host_cmd_ds_802_11_scan_ext to fix a field-spanning write warning during memcpy. This error could lead to memory corruption.

Risk Assessment

Kernel memory corruption may occur, leading to system instability or potential code execution.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix for the mwifiex driver.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mwifiex: Fix memcpy() field-spanning write warning in mwifiex_cmd_802_11_scan_ext() Replace one-element array with a flexible-array member in `struct host_cmd_ds_802_11_scan_ext`. With this, fix the following warning: elo 16 17:51:58 surfacebook kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ elo 16 17:51:58 surfacebook kernel: memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 243) of single field "ext_scan->tlv_buffer" at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:2239 (size 1) elo 16 17:51:58 surfacebook kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 498 at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:2239 mwifiex_cmd_802_11_scan_ext+0x83/0x90 [mwifiex]

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