In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Fix a memory corruption issue A few lines above, space is kzalloc()'ed for: sizeof(struct iwlnvmdata) + sizeof(struct ieee80211channel) + sizeof(struct ieee80211rate) 'mvm->nvmdata' is a 'struct iwlnvmdata', so it is fine. At the end of this structure, there is the 'channels' flex array. Each element is of type 'struct ieee80211channel'. So only 1 element is allocated in this array. When doing: mvm->nvmdata->bands[0].channels = mvm->nvmdata->channels; We point at the first element of the 'channels' flex array. So this is fine. However, when doing: mvm->nvmdata->bands[0].bitrates = (void *)((u8 *)mvm->nvmdata->channels + 1); because of the "(u8 *)" cast, we add only 1 to the address of the beginning of the flex array. It is likely that we want point at the 'struct ieee80211_rate' allocated just after. Remove the spurious casting so that the pointer arithmetic works as expected.