CVE-2024-40930 (GCVE-0-2024-40930)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-12 12:25 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:22
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Title
wifi: cfg80211: validate HE operation element parsing
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
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Linux Linux Affected: 645f3d85129d8aac3b896ba685fbc20a31c2c036 , < f15e3e13e14cc5ae8f950c16efe706add18ac8e2 (git)
Affected: 645f3d85129d8aac3b896ba685fbc20a31c2c036 , < 4dc3a3893dae5a7f73e5809273aca0f1f3548d55 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.6 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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