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CVE-2024-49929

wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: avoid NULL pointer dereference PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: avoid NULL pointer dereference iwl_mvm_tx_skb_sta() and iwl_mvm_tx_mpdu() verify that the mvmvsta pointer is not NULL. It retrieves this pointer using iwl_mvm_sta_from_mac80211, which is dereferencing the ieee80211_sta pointer. If sta is NULL, iwl_mvm_sta_from_mac80211 will dereference a NULL pointer. Fix this by checking the sta pointer before retrieving the mvmsta from it. If sta is not NULL, then mvmsta isn't either.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 5b577a90fb3d86447ee86f8e0c6ddbd5da2ef8c9 before cbc6fc9cfcde151ff5eadaefdc6155f99579384f; affected 5b577a90fb3d86447ee86f8e0c6ddbd5da2ef8c9 before 6dcadb2ed3b76623ab96e3e7fbeda1a374d01c28; affected 5b577a90fb3d86447ee86f8e0c6ddbd5da2ef8c9 before cdbf51bfa4b0411820806777da36d93d49bc49a1; affected 5b577a90fb3d86447ee86f8e0c6ddbd5da2ef8c9 before c0b4f5d94934c290479180868a32c15ba36a6d9e; affected 5b577a90fb3d86447ee86f8e0c6ddbd5da2ef8c9 before 557a6cd847645e667f3b362560bd7e7c09aac284
Linux / Linuxaffected 3.14; unaffected 0 before 3.14; unaffected 6.1.120 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.55 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.10.14 through 6.10.*; unaffected 6.11.3 through 6.11.*; unaffected 6.12 through *

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