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Debian: CVE-2024-50008: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2024-50008: linux -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/21/2024
Created
11/12/2024
Added
11/11/2024
Modified
11/11/2024

Description

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]

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

References

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