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CVE-2024-56536 (GCVE-0-2024-56536)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-27 14:11 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:54
VLAI
Title
wifi: cw1200: Fix potential NULL dereference
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cw1200: Fix potential NULL dereference A recent refactoring was identified by static analysis to cause a potential NULL dereference, fix this!
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 20:02 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 2719a9e7156c4b3983b43db467c1ff96801bda99 , < 0ec90ac5f7bd9dd573bd5d964cbdc3beaa93a33e (git)
Affected: 2719a9e7156c4b3983b43db467c1ff96801bda99 , < 67c914f2d64b28409796a6b9036c131e93f8af6c (git)
Affected: 2719a9e7156c4b3983b43db467c1ff96801bda99 , < 2b94751626a6d49bbe42a19cc1503bd391016bd5 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.11 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.2 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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