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CVE-2024-38609 (GCVE-0-2024-38609)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-19 13:56 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:20
VLAI
Title
wifi: mt76: connac: check for null before dereferencing
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: connac: check for null before dereferencing The wcid can be NULL. It should be checked for validity before dereferencing it to avoid crash.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 17:13 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 098428c400ff2d0f32b7cc0dc003c8da4b69908d , < e469218765b2781fb968778bd13595acec181a0e (git)
Affected: 098428c400ff2d0f32b7cc0dc003c8da4b69908d , < cb47c7be0e93dd5acda078163799401ac3a78e10 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9.3 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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