Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: nl80211: fix NULL-ptr deref in offchan check
If, e.g. in AP mode, the link was already created by userspace but not activated yet, it has a chandef but the chandef isn’t valid and has no channel. Check for this and ignore this link.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+4 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: nl80211: fix NULL-ptr deref in offchan check
If, e.g. in AP mode, the link was already created by userspace but not activated yet, it has a chandef but the chandef isn’t valid and has no channel. Check for this and ignore this link.