CVE-2024-56539
Published: Dec 27, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mwifiex: Fix memcpy() field-spanning write warning in mwifiex_config_scan() Replace one-element array with a flexible-array member in `struct mwifiex_ie_types_wildcard_ssid_params` to fix the following warning on a MT8173 Chromebook (mt8173-elm-hana): [ 356.775250] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 356.784543] memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 6) of single field "wildcard_ssid_tlv->ssid" at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:904 (size 1) [ 356.813403] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 742 at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:904 mwifiex_scan_networks+0x4fc/0xf28 [mwifiex] The "(size 6)" above is exactly the length of the SSID of the network this device was connected to. The source of the warning looks like: ssid_len = user_scan_in->ssid_list[i].ssid_len; [...] memcpy(wildcard_ssid_tlv->ssid, user_scan_in->ssid_list[i].ssid, ssid_len); There is a #define WILDCARD_SSID_TLV_MAX_SIZE that uses sizeof() on this struct, but it already didn't account for the size of the one-element array, so it doesn't need to be changed.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 5e6e3a92b9a4c9416b17f468fa5c7fa2233b8b4e - < a09760c513ae0f98c7082a1deace7fb6284ee866affected 5e6e3a92b9a4c9416b17f468fa5c7fa2233b8b4e - < 1de0ca1d7320a645ba2ee5954f64be08935b002aaffected 5e6e3a92b9a4c9416b17f468fa5c7fa2233b8b4e - < 5fa329c44e1e635da2541eab28b6cdb8464fc8d1affected 5e6e3a92b9a4c9416b17f468fa5c7fa2233b8b4e - < 581261b2d6fdb4237b24fa13f5a5f87bf2861f2caffected 5e6e3a92b9a4c9416b17f468fa5c7fa2233b8b4e - < b466746cfb6be43f9a1457bbee52ade397fb23ea+4 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 3.0unaffected 0 - < 3.0unaffected 4.19.325 - <= 4.19.*unaffected 5.4.287 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.231 - <= 5.10.*+6 more versions |
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