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From: Siddh Raman Pant <siddh.raman.pant@oracle.com>
To: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "cve@kernel.org" <cve@kernel.org>,
	"linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CVE-2024-27410: wifi: nl80211: reject iftype change with mesh ID change
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 12:28:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42c2fa68c360d05dcf798bc783078270e8fe8314.camel@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2024051701-CVE-2024-27410-874a@gregkh>

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On Fri, 17 May 2024 13:52:02 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
> 
> wifi: nl80211: reject iftype change with mesh ID change
> 
> It's currently possible to change the mesh ID when the
> interface isn't yet in mesh mode, at the same time as
> changing it into mesh mode. This leads to an overwrite
> of data in the wdev->u union for the interface type it
> currently has, causing cfg80211_change_iface() to do
> wrong things when switching.
> 
> [...]
> 
> The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-27410 to this issue.

This does not apply to versions below 6.0, as the union was not backported.
The fix commit mentioned is incorrect, it should be 7b0a0e3c3a88.

Thanks,
Siddh

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       reply	other threads:[~2024-05-22 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2024051701-CVE-2024-27410-874a@gregkh>
2024-05-22 12:28 ` Siddh Raman Pant [this message]
2024-05-22 12:34   ` CVE-2024-27410: wifi: nl80211: reject iftype change with mesh ID change gregkh

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