CVE-2024-41072

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41072
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-41072.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-41072
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-07-29T14:57:32.432Z
Modified
2025-11-28T02:34:46.777815Z
Summary
wifi: cfg80211: wext: add extra SIOCSIWSCAN data check
Details

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

wifi: cfg80211: wext: add extra SIOCSIWSCAN data check

In 'cfg80211wextsiwscan()', add extra check whether number of channels passed via 'ioctl(sock, SIOCSIWSCAN, ...)' doesn't exceed IWMAXFREQUENCIES and reject invalid request with -EINVAL otherwise.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/41xxx/CVE-2024-41072.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Fixed
b02ba9a0b55b762bd04743a22f3d9f9645005e79
Fixed
de5fcf757e33596eed32de170ce5a93fa44dd2ac
Fixed
6295bad58f988eaafcf0e6f8b198a580398acb3b
Fixed
a43cc0558530b6c065976b6b9246f512f8d3593b
Fixed
001120ff0c9e3557dee9b5ee0d358e0fc189996f
Fixed
fe9644efd86704afe50e56b64b609de340ab7c95
Fixed
35cee10ccaee5bd451a480521bbc25dc9f07fa5b
Fixed
6ef09cdc5ba0f93826c09d810c141a8d103a80fc

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.19.319
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.20.0
Fixed
5.4.281
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.223
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.164
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.101
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.42
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.9.11