CVE-2024-49857

Published: Oct 21, 2024Modified: Jun 17, 2026

5.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Linux: Linux Kernel

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Linux Linux Kernel	From 6.11 to 6.11.2

Related CWEs

NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

References (2)

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a949075d4bbf1ca83ccdeaa6ef4ac2ce7526c5f4

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3322a6d6aa9bc17b395c4b38d3b97578887aa8a

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Patch

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