CVE-2024-43879

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43879
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-43879.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-43879
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-08-21T00:06:31.488Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:38:53.318579Z
Summary
wifi: cfg80211: handle 2x996 RU allocation in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he()
Details

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

wifi: cfg80211: handle 2x996 RU allocation in cfg80211calculatebitrate_he()

Currently NL80211RATEINFOHERUALLOC2x996 is not handled in cfg80211calculatebitrate_he(), leading to below warning:

kernel: invalid HE MCS: bw:6, ru:6 kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2312 at net/wireless/util.c:1501 cfg80211calculatebitrate_he+0x22b/0x270 [cfg80211]

Fix it by handling 2x996 RU allocation in the same way as 160 MHz bandwidth.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/43xxx/CVE-2024-43879.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
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
c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f
Fixed
45d20a1c54be4f3173862c7b950d4468447814c9
Fixed
b289ebb0516526cb4abae081b7ec29fd4fa1209d
Fixed
2e201b3d162c6c49417c438ffb30b58c9f85769f
Fixed
576c64622649f3ec07e97bac8fec8b8a2ef4d086
Fixed
16ad67e73309db0c20cc2a651992bd01c05e6b27
Fixed
67b5f1054197e4f5553047759c15c1d67d4c8142
Fixed
19eaf4f2f5a981f55a265242ada2bf92b0c742dd
Fixed
bcbd771cd5d68c0c52567556097d75f9fc4e7cd6

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-43879.json"