CVE-2024-49857 (GCVE-0-2024-49857)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-21 12:18 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:40
VLAI
Title
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: set the cipher for secured NDP ranging
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: set the cipher for secured NDP ranging The cipher pointer is not set, but is derefereced trying to set its content, which leads to a NULL pointer dereference. Fix it by pointing to the cipher parameter before dereferencing.
Severity
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SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 626be4bf99f6250cd66da5d311a72ad7455c5a64 , < b3322a6d6aa9bc17b395c4b38d3b97578887aa8a (git)
Affected: 626be4bf99f6250cd66da5d311a72ad7455c5a64 , < a949075d4bbf1ca83ccdeaa6ef4ac2ce7526c5f4 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.2 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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