CVE-2024-35912 wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: rfi: fix potential response leaks
A memory leak in the iwlwifi driver allows attackers to cause denial of service by triggering specific error conditions during response processing.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-35912?
CVE-2024-35912 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: rfi: fix potential response leaks
If the rx payload length check fails, or if kmemdup() fails, we still need to free the command response. Fix that.
Weakness: CWE-401
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-35912?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-35912?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2024-35912 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-35912 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as AZL-42136, BELL-CVE-2024-35912, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35912, GHSA-hxcx-w659-frw9, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-35912.