Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Fix response handling in iwl_mvm_send_recovery_cmd()
- The size of the response packet is not validated.
- The response buffer is not freed.
Resolve these issues by switching to iwl_mvm_send_cmd_status(), which handles both size validation and frees the buffer.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 4.15.0 (+3 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Fix response handling in iwl_mvm_send_recovery_cmd()
- The size of the response packet is not validated.
- The response buffer is not freed.
Resolve these issues by switching to iwl_mvm_send_cmd_status(), which handles both size validation and frees the buffer.