CVE-2024-57989 (GCVE-0-2024-57989)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-27 02:07 – Updated: 2025-10-01 19:36
VLAI?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7925: fix NULL deref check in mt7925_change_vif_links In mt7925_change_vif_links() devm_kzalloc() may return NULL but this returned value is not checked.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 69acd6d910b0c83842bd45c36224d4f8fe59d1d4 , < 5872530c2862700070223a2c2ea85642bf2f8875 (git)
Affected: 69acd6d910b0c83842bd45c36224d4f8fe59d1d4 , < 2f709fe755c16b811ba7339ae4c3ee2c72323d3d (git)
Affected: 69acd6d910b0c83842bd45c36224d4f8fe59d1d4 , < 5cd0bd815c8a48862a296df9b30e0ea0da14acd3 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.13 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.2 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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