PT-2025-8784

CVE-2024-57997

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Published

2024-11-21

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Updated

2026-10-13

Description by

CVSS 3.1
8.8
High
MetricsAV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description A memory allocation issue was found in the Linux kernel's wifi component, specifically in the wcn36xx driver. The issue occurred due to incorrect size calculation when allocating memory for the wcn->chan survey variable, leading to the potential use of uninitialized values. This problem was identified by KASAN.
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
ALT-PU-2025-12647
DLA-4102-1
OESA-2025-1339
OESA-2025-1340
OPENSUSE-SU-2025_1177-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2025_1178-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2025_1180-1
SUSE-SU-2025:01919-1
SUSE-SU-2025:1177-1
SUSE-SU-2025_1177-1
SUSE-SU-2025:1178-1
SUSE-SU-2025_1178-1
SUSE-SU-2025:1180-1
SUSE-SU-2025_1180-1
SUSE-SU-2025:20190-1
SUSE-SU-2025:20192-1
SUSE-SU-2025:20260-1
SUSE-SU-2025:20270-1
USN-7521-1
USN-7521-2
USN-7521-3
USN-7651-1
USN-7651-2
USN-7651-3
USN-7651-4
USN-7651-5
USN-7651-6
USN-7652-1
USN-7653-1
USN-7737-1
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