Medium · published October 21, 2024
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mwifiex: Fix memcpy() field-spanning write warning in mwifiex_cmd_802_11_scan_ext()
Replace one-element array with a flexible-array member in
`struct host_cmd_ds_802_11_scan_ext`.
With this, fix the following warning:
elo 16 17:51:58 surfacebook kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
elo 16 17:51:58 surfacebook kernel: memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 243) of single field "ext_scan->tlv_buffer" at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:2239 (size 1)
elo 16 17:51:58 surfacebook kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 498 at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:2239 mwifiex_cmd_802_11_scan_ext+0x83/0x90 [mwifiex]
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux/linux_kernel | < 5.10.227 | 5.10.227 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.168 | 5.15.168 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.113 | 6.1.113 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.55 | 6.6.55 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.7, < 6.10.14 | 6.10.14 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.11, < 6.11.3 | 6.11.3 |