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GHSA-27RX-W643-MRJG

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-07-30 09:32 – Updated: 2025-11-04 00:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mt76: replace skb_put with skb_put_zero

Avoid potentially reusing uninitialized data

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

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CVE-2024-42225 (GCVE-0-2024-42225)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-30 07:47 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:35

Title

wifi: mt76: replace skb_put with skb_put_zero

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: replace skb_put with skb_put_zero Avoid potentially reusing uninitialized data

Severity

8.3 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-10 16:14 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6992 records in the last 180 days details

References

6 references

URL	Tags
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22ea2a7f0b64d3236…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff6b26be13032c5fb…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64f86337ccfe77fe3…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f819a2f4fbc510e0…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.16 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.16 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.163 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.98 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.39 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.9.9 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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