CVE-2024-38563 wifi: mt76: mt7996: fix potential memory leakage when reading chip temperature
A memory leak in the mt7996 Wi-Fi driver allows attackers to cause denial of service by repeatedly reading chip temperature.
- 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-2024-38563?
CVE-2024-38563 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jun 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: mt76: mt7996: fix potential memory leakage when reading chip temperature
Without this commit, reading chip temperature will cause memory leakage.
Weakness: CWE-401
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-38563?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-38563?
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-2024-38563 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-38563 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-38563, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38563, GHSA-qv6x-rf2v-9hw8, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38563.