Out-of-bounds Write Affecting kernel-cross-headers package, versions <0:4.18.0-305.141.1.el8_4
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-8083294
- published 24 Sep 2024
- disclosed 29 Jul 2024
Introduced: 29 Jul 2024
CVE-2024-41071 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-cross-headers to version 0:4.18.0-305.141.1.el8_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:7002.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: Avoid address calculations via out of bounds array indexing
req->n_channels must be set before req->channels[] can be used.
This patch fixes one of the issues encountered in [1].
[ 83.964255] UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in net/mac80211/scan.c:364:4 [ 83.964258] index 0 is out of range for type 'struct ieee80211_channel *[]' [...] [ 83.964264] Call Trace: [ 83.964267] <TASK> [ 83.964269] dump_stack_lvl+0x3f/0xc0 [ 83.964274] __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0xec/0x110 [ 83.964278] ieee80211_prep_hw_scan+0x2db/0x4b0 [ 83.964281] __ieee80211_start_scan+0x601/0x990 [ 83.964291] nl80211_trigger_scan+0x874/0x980 [ 83.964295] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xe8/0x160 [ 83.964298] genl_rcv_msg+0x240/0x270 [...]
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-41071
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26b177ecdd311f20de4c379f0630858a675dfc0c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2bb0c5d0086be5ab5054465dfaa381a1144905c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2663d0462eb32ae7c9b035300ab6b1523886c718
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f43a614b1b84f0d1e3c48cc541c3bfdf414a6d0