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CVE-2024-53059

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Fix response handling in iwl_mvm_send_recovery_cmd() 1.

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Fix response handling in iwl_mvm_send_recovery_cmd() 1. The size of the response packet is not validated. 2. The response buffer is not freed. Resolve these issues by switching to iwl_mvm_send_cmd_status(), which handles both size validation and frees the buffer.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 5.1 before 5.4.285
from 5.5 before 5.10.229
from 5.11 before 5.15.171
from 5.16 before 6.1.116
from 6.2 before 6.6.60
from 6.7 before 6.11.7

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