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CVE-2024-43912 (GCVE-0-2024-43912)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-26 10:11 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:32
VLAI
Title
wifi: nl80211: disallow setting special AP channel widths
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: nl80211: disallow setting special AP channel widths Setting the AP channel width is meant for use with the normal 20/40/... MHz channel width progression, and switching around in S1G or narrow channels isn't supported. Disallow that.
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 15:28 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e16821bcfb364b0c41142db275dc74b39fa42c30 , < 3d42f2125f6c89e1e71c87b9f23412afddbba45e (git)
Affected: e16821bcfb364b0c41142db275dc74b39fa42c30 , < c6ea738e3feb407a3283197d9a25d0788f4f3cee (git)
Affected: e16821bcfb364b0c41142db275dc74b39fa42c30 , < ac3bf6e47fd8da9bfe8027e1acfe0282a91584fc (git)
Affected: e16821bcfb364b0c41142db275dc74b39fa42c30 , < 23daf1b4c91db9b26f8425cc7039cf96d22ccbfe (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.105 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.46 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10.5 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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