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FKIE_CVE-2022-49533

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-02-26 07:01 - Updated: 2026-08-04 10:17

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ath11k: Change max no of active probe SSID and BSSID to fw capability The maximum number of SSIDs in a for active probe requests is currently reported as 16 (WLAN_SCAN_PARAMS_MAX_SSID) when registering the driver. The scan_req_params structure only has the capacity to hold 10 SSIDs. This leads to a buffer overflow which can be triggered from wpa_supplicant in userspace. When copying the SSIDs into the scan_req_params structure in the ath11k_mac_op_hw_scan route, it can overwrite the extraie pointer. Firmware supports 16 ssid * 4 bssid, for each ssid 4 bssid combo probe request will be sent, so totally 64 probe requests supported. So set both max ssid and bssid to 16 and 4 respectively. Remove the redundant macros of ssid and bssid. Tested-on: IPQ8074 hw2.0 AHB WLAN.HK.2.7.0.1-01300-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/210505788f1d243232e21ef660efcd4838890ce8	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50dc9ce9f80554a88e33b73c30851acf2be36ed3	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec5dfa1d66f2f71a48dab027d26a9fa78eb0f58f	Patch

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	linux	linux_kernel	*
	linux	linux_kernel	*

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      "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: ath11k: Cambiar el n\u00famero m\u00e1ximo de SSID y BSSID de sonda activa a capacidad fw El n\u00famero m\u00e1ximo de SSID en un para solicitudes de sonda activas se informa actualmente como 16 (WLAN_SCAN_PARAMS_MAX_SSID) al registrar el controlador. La estructura scan_req_params solo tiene la capacidad de contener 10 SSID. Esto conduce a un desbordamiento de b\u00fafer que puede activarse desde wpa_supplicant en el espacio de usuario. Al copiar los SSID en la estructura scan_req_params en la ruta ath11k_mac_op_hw_scan, puede sobrescribir el puntero extraie. El firmware admite 16 ssid * 4 bssid, para cada ssid se enviar\u00e1n 4 solicitudes de sonda combinadas bssid, por lo que se admiten 64 solicitudes de sonda en total. Por lo tanto, configure tanto el ssid m\u00e1ximo como el bssid en 16 y 4 respectivamente. Elimine las macros redundantes de ssid y bssid. Probado en: IPQ8074 hw2.0 AHB WLAN.HK.2.7.0.1-01300-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1"
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CVE-2022-49533 (GCVE-0-2022-49533)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:13 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:55

Title

ath11k: Change max no of active probe SSID and BSSID to fw capability

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6820 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/210505788f1d24323…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec5dfa1d66f2f71a4…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50dc9ce9f80554a88…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d , < 210505788f1d243232e21ef660efcd4838890ce8 (git) Affected: d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d , < ec5dfa1d66f2f71a48dab027d26a9fa78eb0f58f (git) Affected: d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d , < 50dc9ce9f80554a88e33b73c30851acf2be36ed3 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.6 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.6 (semver) Unaffected: 5.17.14 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.18.3 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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