PT-2024-29146

CVE-2024-40930

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Published

2024-05-29

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Updated

2026-08-04

Description by

CVSS 3.1
7.1
High
MetricsAV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description The issue concerns the validation of the HE operation element in the Linux kernel's cfg80211 module. Specifically, it involves validating that the HE operation element has the correct length before parsing it. This is related to wifi functionality.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploitability
Exploit
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Related identifiers
ALSA-2025_12746
ALSA-2025_12752
ALSA-2025_12753
ALSA-2025_16880
INFSA-2024_9315
RHSA-2024:9315
RHSA-2024_9315
SUSE-SU-2024:3194-1
SUSE-SU-2024:3195-1
SUSE-SU-2024:3383-1
SUSE-SU-2025:20044-1
SUSE-SU-2025:20047-1
USN-6999-1
USN-6999-2
USN-7004-1
USN-7005-1
USN-7005-2
USN-7008-1
USN-7029-1
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