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CVE-2024-42225 (GCVE-0-2024-42225)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-30 07:47 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:35
VLAI
Title
wifi: mt76: replace skb_put with skb_put_zero
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: replace skb_put with skb_put_zero Avoid potentially reusing uninitialized data
Severity
8.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 16:14 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 7bc04215a66b60e198aecaee8418f6d79fa19faa , < dc7f14d00d0c4c21898f3504607f4a31079065a2 (git)
Affected: 7bc04215a66b60e198aecaee8418f6d79fa19faa , < 22ea2a7f0b64d323625950414a4496520fb33657 (git)
Affected: 7bc04215a66b60e198aecaee8418f6d79fa19faa , < ff6b26be13032c5fbd6b6a0b24358f8eaac4f3af (git)
Affected: 7bc04215a66b60e198aecaee8418f6d79fa19faa , < 64f86337ccfe77fe3be5a9356b0dabde23fbb074 (git)
Affected: 7bc04215a66b60e198aecaee8418f6d79fa19faa , < 7f819a2f4fbc510e088b49c79addcf1734503578 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.163 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.98 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.39 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.9 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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