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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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