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FKIE_CVE-2024-36941

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-05-30 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:37
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: nl80211: don't free NULL coalescing rule If the parsing fails, we can dereference a NULL pointer here.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/244822c09b4f9aedfb5977f03c0deeb39da8ec7dPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/327382dc0f16b268950b96e0052595efd80f7b0aPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a730a161ac2290d46d49be76b2b1aee8d2eb307Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/801ea33ae82d6a9d954074fbcf8ea9d18f1543a7Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97792d0611ae2e6fe3ccefb0a94a1d802317c457Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad12c74e953b68ad85c78adc6408ed8435c64af4Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0db4caa10f2e4e811cf88744fbf0d074b67ec1fPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f92772a642485394db5c9a17bd0ee73fc6902383Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/244822c09b4f9aedfb5977f03c0deeb39da8ec7dPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/327382dc0f16b268950b96e0052595efd80f7b0aPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a730a161ac2290d46d49be76b2b1aee8d2eb307Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/801ea33ae82d6a9d954074fbcf8ea9d18f1543a7Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97792d0611ae2e6fe3ccefb0a94a1d802317c457Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad12c74e953b68ad85c78adc6408ed8435c64af4Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0db4caa10f2e4e811cf88744fbf0d074b67ec1fPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f92772a642485394db5c9a17bd0ee73fc6902383Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00019.htmlMailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.htmlMailing List
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.9
linux linux_kernel 6.9
linux linux_kernel 6.9
linux linux_kernel 6.9
linux linux_kernel 6.9
debian debian_linux 10.0
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