High severity7.1NVD Advisory· Published Oct 21, 2024· Updated Aug 4, 2026
CVE-2024-49857
CVE-2024-49857
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: set the cipher for secured NDP ranging
The cipher pointer is not set, but is derefereced trying to set its content, which leads to a NULL pointer dereference. Fix it by pointing to the cipher parameter before dereferencing.
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Affected products
14- osv-coords11 versionspkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:linux/kernelpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source-longterm&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 6.11.0-1009.10+ 10 more
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1009.10
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1009.9
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1005.5
- (no CPE)range: >= 6.11.0, < 6.11.2
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1008.8
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.11-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1010.11
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1009.9
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1011.12
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-18.18
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.8-1.1
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