CVE-2024-47738

wifi: mac80211: don't use rate mask for offchannel TX either

published October 21, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: don't use rate mask for offchannel TX either

Like the commit ab9177d83c04 ("wifi: mac80211: don't use rate mask for

scanning"), ignore incorrect settings to avoid no supported rate warning

reported by syzbot.

The syzbot did bisect and found cause is commit 9df66d5b9f45 ("cfg80211:

fix default HE tx bitrate mask in 2G band"), which however corrects

bitmask of HE MCS and recognizes correctly settings of empty legacy rate

plus HE MCS rate instead of returning -EINVAL.

As suggestions [1], follow the change of SCAN TX to consider this case of

offchannel TX as well.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/[email protected]/T/#m2ac2a6d2be06a37c9c47a3d8a44b4f647ed4f024

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00230 · 13.0th percentile
Published
2024-10-21T12:14Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 OCT 12:14Z
    wifi: mac80211: don't use rate mask for offchannel TX either
    cvelistv5