CVE Feed

    Dashboard / CVE / CVE-2024-43879

    CVE-2024-43879

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: handle 2x996 RU allocation in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he() Currently NL80211_RATE_INFO_HE_RU_ALLOC_2x996 is not handled in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he(), leading to below warning: kernel: invalid HE MCS: bw:6, ru:6 kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2312 at net/wireless/util.c:1501 cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he+0x22b/0x270 [cfg80211] Fix it by handling 2x996 RU allocation in the same way as 160 MHz bandwidth.

    Published:Aug 21, 2024
    Last Modified:May 12, 2026
    EPS:Aug 21, 2024
    EPSS Score:0.00042
    CVSS Score:5.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Linux
    Product
    Linux Kernel
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2026-80925 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vlan: fix skb_under_panic and races when …
    CVE-2026-80924 (CVSS 7.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: krb5 - use kfree_sensitive() for …
    CVE-2026-80923 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xhci: dbgtty: Fix unregister on tty_regis…
    CVE-2026-80922 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: qcom-rng - Allow zero as a random…
    CVE-2026-80921 (CVSS 8.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: s390: vsie: zero stale crypto bits …
    CVE-2026-80920 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: defer eventfd signaling when qu…
    CVE-2026-80919 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: fix recursive ww_mutex acquir…
    CVE-2026-80918 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: core: fix number/pointer type confus…
    CVE-2026-80917 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: host-generic: Fix NULL pointer deref…
    CVE-2026-80916 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kcov: fix data corruption and race condit…

    References

    https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16ad67e73309db0c20cc2a651992bd01c05e6b27
    https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19eaf4f2f5a981f55a265242ada2bf92b0c742dd
    https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e201b3d162c6c49417c438ffb30b58c9f85769f
    https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45d20a1c54be4f3173862c7b950d4468447814c9
    https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/576c64622649f3ec07e97bac8fec8b8a2ef4d086
    https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67b5f1054197e4f5553047759c15c1d67d4c8142
    https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b289ebb0516526cb4abae081b7ec29fd4fa1209d
    https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcbd771cd5d68c0c52567556097d75f9fc4e7cd6
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00003.html
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html
    https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html
    https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-355557.html

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High