CVE-2024-57997

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57997
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-57997.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-57997
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-02-27T02:07:17.371Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:41:05.543695Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
wifi: wcn36xx: fix channel survey memory allocation size
Details

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

wifi: wcn36xx: fix channel survey memory allocation size

KASAN reported a memory allocation issue in wcn->chansurvey due to incorrect size calculation. This commit uses kcalloc to allocate memory for wcn->chansurvey, ensuring proper initialization and preventing the use of uninitialized values when there are no frames on the channel.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/57xxx/CVE-2024-57997.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
29696e0aa413b9d56558731aae3806d7cff48d36
Fixed
ae68efdff7a7a42ab251cac79d8713de6f0dbaa0
Fixed
e95f9c408ff8311f75eeabc8acf34a66670d8815
Fixed
64c4dcaeac1dc1030e47883b04a617ca9a4f164e
Fixed
34cd2817708aec51ef1a6c007e0d6d5342a025d7
Fixed
6200d947f050efdba4090dfefd8a01981363d954

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-57997.json"