cve-2024-40929
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-07-12 12:25
Modified
2025-05-04 09:18
Severity ?
Summary
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: check n_ssids before accessing the ssids
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29a18d56bd64b95bd10bda4afda512558471382aPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c4771091ea8016c8601399078916f722dd8833bPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60d62757df30b74bf397a2847a6db7385c6ee281Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62e007bdeb91c6879a4652c3426aef1cd9d2937bPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e719ae3abad60e245ce248ba3f08148f375a614Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f777792952d03bbaf8329fdfa99393a5a33e2640Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29a18d56bd64b95bd10bda4afda512558471382aPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c4771091ea8016c8601399078916f722dd8833bPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60d62757df30b74bf397a2847a6db7385c6ee281Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62e007bdeb91c6879a4652c3426aef1cd9d2937bPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e719ae3abad60e245ce248ba3f08148f375a614Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f777792952d03bbaf8329fdfa99393a5a33e2640Patch
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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