CVE-2024-57899 – IBM WiFi 802.11 Bitwise Operation Integer Overflow Vulnerability

CVE ID : CVE-2024-57899

Published : Jan. 15, 2025, 1:15 p.m. | 1 hour, 2 minutes ago

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

wifi: mac80211: fix mbss changed flags corruption on 32 bit systems

On 32-bit systems, the size of an unsigned long is 4 bytes,
while a u64 is 8 bytes. Therefore, when using
or_each_set_bit(bit, &bits, sizeof(changed) * BITS_PER_BYTE),
the code is incorrectly searching for a bit in a 32-bit
variable that is expected to be 64 bits in size,
leading to incorrect bit finding.

Solution: Ensure that the size of the bits variable is correctly
adjusted for each architecture.

Call Trace:
? show_regs+0x54/0x58
? __warn+0x6b/0xd4
? ieee80211_link_info_change_notify+0xcc/0xd4 [mac80211]
? report_bug+0x113/0x150
? exc_overflow+0x30/0x30
? handle_bug+0x27/0x44
? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x50
? handle_exception+0xf6/0xf6
? exc_overflow+0x30/0x30
? ieee80211_link_info_change_notify+0xcc/0xd4 [mac80211]
? exc_overflow+0x30/0x30
? ieee80211_link_info_change_notify+0xcc/0xd4 [mac80211]
? ieee80211_mesh_work+0xff/0x260 [mac80211]
? cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x72/0x98 [cfg80211]
? process_one_work+0xf1/0x1fc
? worker_thread+0x2c0/0x3b4
? kthread+0xc7/0xf0
? mod_delayed_work_on+0x4c/0x4c
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x14/0x14
? ret_from_fork+0x24/0x38
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x14/0x14
? ret_from_fork_asm+0xf/0x14
? entry_INT80_32+0xf0/0xf0

[restore no-op path for no changes]

Severity: 0.0 | NA

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